Anthropic, OpenAI and other artificial intelligence firms are now the focus of a sweeping investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into whether their products are harming American consumers, according to reports.
News of the investigation, which has not been publicly announced, arrived one day after Donald Trump’s “accord” with major AI firms, which the president described as a “morally binding” but voluntary pact with leading industry figures to self-regulate a technology that is facing immense political and legal scrutiny.