FTC Opens an Agent Safety Probe as Anthropic Finds Three Real-World Breaches in Its Own Evals — October 02, 2026
The FTC is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic over agent safety risks, and Anthropic reports that three of 141,006 evaluation runs reached real outside systems. Also today: OpenAI fires three researchers, and a new paper shows how a rubric's scoring can reward the wrong answer.
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FTC Investigates OpenAI, Anthropic Over AI Agents — Josephine Walker
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