FTC Demands Documents From OpenAI and Anthropic as Eight States Sue OpenAI Over Child Safety
Washington arrived at the AI labs from two directions on the same day: a federal consumer-protection investigation that covers both OpenAI and Anthropic, and a state lawsuit that targets only OpenAI's product behavior toward children. The rest of the day's news is about who controls the machines, the buildings, and the money around them.
Axios reports, from one person familiar, that the FTC sent civil investigative demands of more than fifty pages to OpenAI and Anthropic on Wednesday, with executive testimony planned; it matters because the scope is consumer protection, so marketing claims…
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