Intellectual Property & Technology Blog

On June 12, 2026, the Trump Administration issued an export control directive under national security authorities requiring Anthropic to immediately suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, anywhere in the world, including Anthropic's own foreign-national employees. Anthropic received verbal notice. There was no written order, no opportunity to remediate, and no formal findings to contest. To comply, the company pulled both models for everyone.

That is the fastest regulatory action I have seen taken against a technology company in recent memory.

The ...

One week produced more AI regulatory activity at the federal level than Congress managed in years of privacy debates: an executive order on AI cybersecurity, a national security memorandum directing the military to adopt commercial AI at scale, and a bipartisan congressional draft proposing the first comprehensive federal AI framework. The pattern matters more than any single item.

The Federal Government Is Moving First

Privacy law in the United States followed a familiar arc. Europe acted, Congress debated, and eventually twenty-plus states passed their own laws. California ...

On May 5, five of the world's largest publishing houses, Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, joined author Scott Turow in filing a class action against Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleges Meta torrented over 267 terabytes of pirated material, the equivalent of hundreds of millions of publications, to train its Llama large language models, and that Zuckerberg personally authorized abandoning licensing negotiations in favor of using pirated datasets. This is a case worth watching carefully, for reasons ...