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Lina Khan is an antitrust scholar and lawyer who chaired the U.S. Federal Trade Commission from 2021 to 2025, known for aggressive enforcement against Big Tech.
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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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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On Decoder, former DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter takes up the frontier labs' request for permission to coordinate on safety. His first point is that OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Elon Musk do not much like each other.
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The former FTC chair says the unfair-or-deceptive standard already covers firms whose agents break other people's systems, and that some state attorneys-general are exploring criminal liability for chief executives.
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Business Insider's roundup of the backlash against extreme AI-risk forecasts quotes a security CEO, a former FTC chair and the White House AI czar, all of them pointing boards at liability law they already work under.
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The commission calls the withdrawn guidance minimal in benefit and superseded by rulemaking, without saying which rulemaking, which leaves anyone holding users' uploaded medical records arguing from the rule text instead.
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The complaint says Max's advertised 5x and 20x multipliers apply only inside rolling five-hour sessions that sit under a weekly cap, while Anthropic's own defence is that the terms were two hyperlinks away.
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The agency says it cannot ban the practice, only the undisclosed version of it. That leaves pricing and data teams owing an answer on which customer data moved a price.
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