Prof G Markets · Thursday, October 1, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic concerning AI safety. This follows reports of tens of thousands of AI safety incidents flagged by researchers at both companies, indicating a more widespread issue than previously understood.
“The FTC has opened an investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic over safety concerns.”
“Over the weekend, Axios reported that tens of thousands of AI safety incidents were flagged by researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic, indicating that the AI safety issue is far more entrenched than just a single accident at Hugging Face.”
“This is really about the scale of these incidents being much larger than was previously publicly known.”