Marketplace Tech · Friday, October 2, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission has initiated a wide-ranging investigation into AI companies, including Anthropic and OpenAI, to assess potential consumer harm from their products. This probe will examine issues such as rogue AI agents, misleading marketing, and data handling practices.
“The Federal Trade Commission opened a broad investigation into AI labs over potential safety threats their products may pose to consumers.”
“policing agreement, and then the FTC potentially bringing some enforcement against these companies.”
“One of the things that two of the former Democratic commissioners said when they were responding to the calls for AI regulation was, look, we have laws on the books. We have consumer protection laws. We have laws around deceptive business”