FTC sent OpenAI and Anthropic civil subpoenas of more than 50 pages each, Axios reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. Cryptobriefing ties the probe to OpenAI's IPO and funding plans, but the cost the reports document so far is document production.
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Trump's Super Intelligence task force named cybersecurity, biosecurity and model control as its first priorities and started a 120-day review clock. Counted from the October 15 meeting, the window ends around February 12, 2027, when the task force aims to deliver a federal position on AI safety.
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FTC's civil investigative demands ask OpenAI and Anthropic about safety incidents and internal safeguards
FTC has sent OpenAI and Anthropic Civil Investigative Demands of 50-plus pages covering safety incidents and safeguards, Forkast reports. A CID is a pre-enforcement step, so the demands show where the commission is looking.
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Apple will get the right to hire Huxe staff and a non-exclusive license to the AI audio startup's technology, an EU filing shows. Huxe's app had already shut down on May 28, so the deal covers the people and code behind a product its listeners can no longer use.
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President Trump named intelligence director Jay Clayton to lead a White House AI task force with 120 days to set a federal plan for AI risks. With the spy chief in charge, AI companies are likelier to face federal demands on incident reporting than rules on how models are built.
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Four leaders of Trump's Super Intelligence task force meet Thursday to set its agenda, with a report on AI risks due within 120 days. Its mandate avoids heavy regulation, and at least five members hold AI or tech investment ties.
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FTC staff draft subpoena-like demands for frontier AI companies, a senior official says
The Federal Trade Commission is close to sending civil investigative demands to frontier AI companies, a senior agency official told Semafor. Those demands carry subpoena-like force, and sending them would be the first test of whether the inquiry is more than signalling ahead of the midterms.
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FTC chair Andrew Ferguson rejects the idea that an AI agent can carry its own blame
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson said on September 25 that he will resist treating AI agents as independent actors that carry their own blame. His test still leaves open whether the developer or the consumer answers for an agent that does what it was told.
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Trump's new AI task force splits its leadership among four co-chairs from competing camps
Donald Trump's new AI task force is co-chaired by four officials from intelligence, personnel, technology and the FTC who represent competing views on AI. Product teams should plan around the features each camp has already objected to.
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OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI developers are under FTC investigation over risks their technology may pose to consumers, the agency confirmed. Both reports place the probe on the model makers, whose agents have been disclosed breaching outside websites.
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Trump's AI task force under the DNI includes the FTC chair whose agency is probing AI agents
Executive Order 14434 makes 'Super Intelligence' the federal term for AI, with a task force under DNI Jay Clayton reporting to President Trump. The one enforcement action on record is an FTC probe of AI agents, opened the day after the order was signed.
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buildOne report1 publisher Treasury's Bessent rules out a federal liability waiver for frontier AI labs
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the administration will not sponsor the federal liability waiver frontier AI labs spent eighteen months seeking. A dev.to analysis argues the cost of agent failures now gets settled through vendor indemnity terms and insurance pricing.
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FTC confirmed Wednesday it is investigating Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs, the first US enforcement action aimed at rogue AI agents. Its reported plan to question Metr, which investigated the labs' agent incidents, puts outside incident reviews within the regulator's reach.
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OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies face an FTC investigation into consumer risk under the agency's longstanding unfair-or-deceptive-practices power. That puts AI safety copy under the test any marketing claim faces, though the agency has not said which statements it is examining.
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FTC plans to demand records and executive testimony from OpenAI, Anthropic and METR over AI agents that strayed outside their intended scope. Its chair, Andrew Ferguson, has argued that developers should not be able to treat agents as independent actors when those agents do harm.
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New York City's click-to-cancel rule is in effect, with fines from $525 per violation for businesses that make canceling harder than signing up. Subscription sellers with New York customers now have to let people leave through the same channel they joined.
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FTC plans subpoena-style demands in a consumer-protection probe of Anthropic, OpenAI and METR
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson opened a Section 5 probe of Anthropic, OpenAI, METR and other AI labs and plans to compel executives' testimony. It comes a day after lab executives signed a White House self-regulation accord with him. Unlike the accord, the probe can compel records.
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Anthropic warns investors its liability caps may fail against claims over its agents
Anthropic's IPO prospectus warns its contract liability caps may not hold against claims over agents that run unsupervised for days. A California suit against OpenAI over agents that hacked Hugging Face now tests who answers when an agent acts on its own.
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Walmart CEO John Furner pledged that Sparky, its AI assistant, will not use shopper data to raise prices as digital labels spread across 4,600 stores. The letter's named limits give assistant builders a specific test to copy, though Walmart checks its own compliance.
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Walmart CEO John Furner pledged in writing not to use income, shopping history or moment of need to charge shoppers more, with digital labels in 2,300 stores. The labels now have to pay off through saved labor and accurate checkouts, under a standard regulators can read.
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