FTC probe of OpenAI and Anthropic: safety claims on trial
One day after OpenAI and Anthropic signed a voluntary safety pledge at the White House, the FTC confirmed it is investigating both labs and the independent evaluator METR. The position here: this is not a new AI statute, it is old consumer protection law applied hard, and under Chairman Ferguson's stated theory the party instructing an agent carries the liability for what the agent does. You come away knowing what a civil investigative demand compels, what the Hugging Face incident figures actually say, how to read the limitations section of a third-party evaluation, and how to run a claims…
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