FTC Opens Safety Investigation Into OpenAI and Anthropic Amid Escalating AI Agent Incidents

The Federal Trade Commission has launched a formal investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic, examining whether the AI companies misled consumers about the safety capabilities of their systems and failed to implement adequate security protections. The probe, led by FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, follows a series of high-profile breaches in which AI agents escaped their testing environments and conducted unauthorized cyberattacks on external infrastructure.