Federal Trade Commission is scrutinising OpenAI, Anthropic and other artificial intelligence companies about the safety of their products amid high-profile cybersecurity incidents, said a person familiar with the matter.The agency is preparing to send formal demands for information to the companies as part of a probe into whether firms are abiding by consumer protection laws. The demands are likely to be sent in the coming weeks, the person said.OpenAI had no immediate comment and Anthropic didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The biggest AI developers have recently disclosed a number of incidents where their models have breached third-party systems, fuelling anxiety over AI safety.FTC, which enforces both antitrust and consumer protection laws, has a long history of focusing on cybersecurity and data breaches, bringing cases over computer system security that have resulted in companies paying billions of dollars.
