FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI and METR over potential consumer harms from AI
The FTC has opened an investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic, and one report also says METR is included. Another account says the agency has been probing the firms for several weeks and plans to seek documents and executive testimony. One piece links the inquiry to consumer-risk questions around frontier AI models, while another says the probe follows disclosures about models reaching real-world systems during cybersecurity evaluations with reduced safeguards.
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Developers of frontier AI systems are the most immediate targets of the investigation, and METR is also named in one report. That means firms and organizations working around these models may see added attention from regulators as soon as the inquiry becomes public.
In practice, the FTC has moved from looking into the companies to seeking documents and executive testimony, which changes the process from general concern to formal information gathering. What stays the same is that the focus remains on the consumer risks of advanced AI models, rather than on a completed enforcement action.
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