FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson initiated an investigation into leading AI firms a few weeks ago, and the agency is now drafting civil investigative demands to force testimony from executives at Anthropi…
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks, CNBC reported, adding to scrutiny of their safety practices following the Hugging Face hack. …
The Federal Trade Commission is opening a major probe into the top U.S. AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, over potential dangers to consumers, with plans to issue demands for information and te…
The Federal Trade Commission has opened an industry-wide investigation into AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic following a July 9-13 breach in which more than 1,200 autonomous OpenAI agents c…
The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier AI labs and is drafting civil investigative demands, which function like subpoenas, to compel docu…
The Federal Trade Commission is expanding a probe into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs over potential consumer dangers from their technology, the New York Post reported on Wednesday, citing admini…
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson launched an investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier AI labs a few weeks ago and is drafting civil investigative demands to compel executives to testify abo…
Nvidia introduced its Open Agent Safety Platform (OASP) on September 28, 2026, a framework using the Apache 2.0 OpenShell runtime and the Sentry BlueField-4 DPU watchdog to enforce AI agent safety at …
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson rejected the 'autonomous actor' defense at the Reuters Momentum AI event in Austin on September 25, 2026, stating that developers who instruct AI agents bear liability for…
Maryland's Protection From Predatory Pricing Act, House Bill 895, takes effect October 1, 2026, allowing the Maryland Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division to begin enforcing the state's ban…
Tom Siegel, who led Google's trust and safety operation from 2004 to 2019, told Reuters that AI chatbots have created a crisis for children that is "just as bad, maybe worse" than social media's, citi…
Amazon announced a plugin that lets independent sellers manage their Amazon businesses through Anthropic's Claude or Amazon's Quick assistant, checking inventory, adjusting prices and updating listing…
The Federal Trade Commission has held that "there is no AI exemption from the laws on the books," and has enforced that position through Operation AI Comply, announced September 25, 2024, followed by …
An anonymous website called fuck-off.ai circulated on September 19th accusing software companies of expanding terms so user content becomes AI training material, but named no platform, lab, payment, c…
A legal scholar argues that the common US objection to regulating AI — that the US should not act unless China does — is flawed, drawing parallels to air pollution and climate change regulation. The a…
Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) sent a letter Thursday to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and Commissioner Mark Meador requesting an investigation into alleged anticompetitive practi…
Antitrust experts say leading AI companies' public calls for a coordinated AI development "slowdown" could invite regulatory scrutiny under the Sherman Act, according to John Bergmayer, legal counsel …
US Department of Justice Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said at Fordham University on September 17 that the DOJ does not currently view coordination among AI companies on safety issues as…
US Senators Tammy Baldwin and Rick Scott sent a letter asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Amazon's Alexa for Shopping and Walmart's Sparky AI shopping assistants suppress "made…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's September 12 essay proposing a narrow antitrust waiver so competing AI firms can coordinate on safety protocols drew skepticism from FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson on September…