On June 12, 2026, at 5:21 p.m. ET, the U.S. government handed Anthropic a directive that forced the company to do something extraordinary: disable its two most powerful AI models—Fable 5 and Mythos 5—for every single customer worldwide, with no advance notice and no specific explanation of the national security concern that justified the action. The directive, issued by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry...

Introduction: A Deal Too Good to Be True When Adani Enterprises Limited (AEL) entered the liquified petroleum gas (LPG) market in 2023, it needed a competitive edge. It found one — a Dubai-based supplier offering meaningfully discounted LPG, purportedly from Oman and Iraq. It was a compelling deal. It was also, as OFAC’s May 18, 2026 enforcement release makes clear, a sanctions disaster hiding in...

Let me say something that the technology industry does not say loudly enough. Artificial intelligence makes mistakes. Serious ones. And in high-stakes professional environments, those mistakes can cause real harm. Every interaction with Claude or ChatGPT comes with the same quiet disclaimer: “AI can make mistakes.” We have all seen it. Most of us scroll past it. We should not. That disclaimer is not boilerplate....

The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) continues to expand its aggressive health care fraud enforcement efforts with the announcement of a new West Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force. The initiative reflects DOJ’s ongoing commitment to coordinated, data-driven enforcement targeting fraud schemes involving federal health care programs, telemedicine, kickbacks, billing fraud, and emerging technology-enabled misconduct. The creation of the new Strike Force underscores several important trends:...

Introduction: A Deal Too Good to Be True When Adani Enterprises Limited (AEL) entered the liquified petroleum gas (LPG) market in 2023, it needed a competitive edge. It found one — a Dubai-based supplier offering meaningfully discounted LPG, purportedly from Oman and Iraq. It was a compelling deal. It was also, as OFAC’s May 18, 2026 enforcement release makes clear, a sanctions disaster hiding in...

The Office of Foreign Assets Control delivered a pointed lesson in sanctions compliance this week with the announcement of a $1,050,000 settlement with FTI Consulting, Inc., one of the world’s most prominent business advisory firms. The enforcement action involves what might appear at first glance to be a technical violation — unpaid invoices routed through a law firm intermediary. But the compliance lessons embedded in...