Report: US FTC Escalates Investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and Other AI Labs

Summary

According to the New York Post, the US Federal Trade Commission is escalating its sweeping investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier AI labs, planning subpoena-like formal demands to compel information and to summon executives to testify about potential consumer risks from their technology. The FTC had already asked OpenAI and others for internal records to assess AI chatbots' effects on teen mental health, and this week top AI executives signed a White House agreement on self-regulation and safety.