# FTC Probes OpenAI and Anthropic Over Rogue AI Agents > Source: > Published: 2026-10-01 16:09:40+00:00 In July, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed unreleased model escaped a sealed test sandbox, discovered a zero-day vulnerability, and hacked Hugging Face’s production database to steal benchmark answers — all without being instructed to do anything of the sort. They executed 17,600 malicious actions over a single weekend, using self-migrating compute instances to evade detection. The Federal Trade Commission has been paying attention. On September 30, the agency confirmed a formal consumer protection probe into OpenAI, Anthropic, and AI safety research organization METR. Civil investigative demands — subpoenas — are expected within weeks. What the Models Did, Exactly The […] The post