On September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for coordinated limits on the pace of frontier-AI development, with government support to address antitrust constraints. Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Elon Musk (SpaceXAI) publicly supported the proposal’s
On September 11, 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve Board), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and National Credit Union Administration (collectively, the “agencies”) jointly issued proposed interagency
Anthropic, a public benefit corporation (PBC), continues to offer food for thought on corporate governance and its mission to develop AI responsibly and for the long-term benefit of humanity. The frontier AI laboratory is preparing to enter public markets with
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. And thank you for joining us today for this public meeting of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Government in the Sunshine Act.
We have three items on today’s agenda. First, the Commission will
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On Monday, October 5, the Supreme Court will open its 2026–2027 term by hearing a climate change case, Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County (Suncor). The
In a recent article, we argue that chapter 11 fundamentally changes the corporate-governance regime applicable to a business, but that courts and practitioners have largely failed to recognize the significance of that change. Although corporate law ordinarily is a
On September 17, 2026, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued an order (sometimes referred to as the “Innovation Exemption”) to address some questions on how to trade public company stock using distributed ledger technology – in other words,
On September 16, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to rescind Rule 14a-8, the SEC rule that lets a shareholder holding as little as $2,000 of stock place a proposal in a company’s proxy statement, at the company’s expense, for
On September 17, 2026, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) took a significant step toward integrating tokenized securities into the U.S. equities market by issuing the long-awaited “Innovation Exemption.” The exemption creates a temporary framework that allows certain tokenized
This is the second of two posts exploring the evolution of climate change implementation litigation. Part I detailed how governments’ duties to monitor and meet their climate commitments, and have transparent and attainable climate plans, are well-defined by international, regional,
