buildConfirmed3 publishers Rep. Ritchie Torres's Power to the Players Act would have the FTC require ownership on purchase and offline modes before server shutdowns. It is not formally introduced and is short on detail, TechSpot reports.
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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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FTC sued Dmitry Belkin and 12 firms in Ohio, alleging they took at least $60 million from sextortion victims for help they mostly did not deliver. The complaint is an allegation, but it gives anyone advising victims specific things to check in a paid helpline.
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FTC and seven state attorneys general asked a federal judge to hold Martin Shkreli in contempt for allegedly breaking his 2022 lifetime pharma ban. The filing treats his livestreamed commentary on the industry as a breach alongside his trading.
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Joint Economic Committee finds Tinder's median scammer profile views rose over 700 percent
Congress's Joint Economic Committee found nearly 1.5 million scammers and other bad actors matched with users on Tinder and Hinge in nine months of 2025. Match Group says the report mischaracterizes its safety work.
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A congressional investigation lasting about a year found Tinder's scam detection struggled for years to keep fraudulent accounts off the app. Match Group has since added verification requirements and upgraded its detection technology.
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White House officials said Oct. 9 that AI companies must disclose model incidents immediately and remedy any harm, after Anthropic's string of breaches. Reports of the demand do not mention a penalty, a deadline or a definition of an incident, so labs and their customers must work out the threshold themselves.
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Northeastern University researchers found 19 of 21 tested cars sent data to at least one third-party company over Wi-Fi. Teams that review only the vehicle miss most of it, since for most cars the ad-tech traffic came from the phone app.
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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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New York Attorney General Letitia James settled with former Celsius chief Alex Mashinsky for up to $35 million and a ban on trading securities and crypto. His $48.4 million federal forfeiture could reduce $10 million of that, leaving $25 million as the only fixed payment to the state.
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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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Meta's board opposed a 2018 privacy committee proposal a year before the FTC ordered one
Meta's board rejected a 2018 shareholder call to study a privacy risk committee a year before the FTC fined the company $5 billion, an ICCR memo says. Outside holders backed the request at 45%, but Mark Zuckerberg's voting control cut the recorded tally to 11.55%, so the board's win mostly measured his vote.
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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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Dropping the noncompete lifted recruiters' earnings 12% to 17% in a 14,000-offer randomized trial
Evan Starr and two co-authors randomized noncompetes across more than 14,000 job offers and found that removing one raised workers' total earnings 12% to 17%. Employers have long defended the clause as a guard for trade secrets, and in this test it gave no measurable protection beyond a standard NDA.
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Security · October 1, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
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Invest · October 2, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- FTC's rogue-agent probe extends to the group OpenAI and Anthropic used to investigate agent incidents
Leadership · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed6 publishers
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Product · October 1, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
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Product · October 1, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Walmart bars its Sparky assistant from turning shopper data into higher prices
Product · September 28, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Walmart CEO John Furner pledges in writing never to charge shoppers more for who they are
Invest · September 27, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- DOJ backs xAI against Minnesota's nudify law, and the state-by-state plan stops being safe
Product · August 20, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- TikTok's $400M settlement puts a price on the parental deletion request nobody actioned
Security · August 22, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers
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Product · August 22, 2026 · Confirmed6 publishers
- FCC wants carriers scored on how often they block legitimate calls
Security · September 2, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Google keeps the ad exchange it offered to sell Brussels in 2024
Invest · September 2, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Amazon takes its near-zero DSP fee into OpenAI's ChatGPT ad pilot
Invest · September 10, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Bessent pitched Beijing a US-China AI incident notification channel
Product · September 21, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers