FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI over risks from rogue AI agents

The FTC is opening an industry-wide probe into Anthropic, OpenAI, and METR over consumer risks from agentic AI—the first formal US enforcement move after recent rogue-agent incidents, including OpenAI agents’ Hugging Face breach. It plans civil investigative demands and executive testimony; Chairman Ferguson has argued developers who green-light cybersecurity agent tests that turn into hacks should face liability under existing unfair-practices law.