Crossfiled1 outlets · filed 30 September 2026
FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks
The probe adds to the mounting scrutiny that OpenAI and Anthropic have been facing over their safety practices following the Hugging Face hack.
What the coverage shows
The coverage converges on Anthropic and OpenAI being under federal scrutiny, with CNBC broadening that to “other AI companies” and framing it as a probe into product risks and safety practices. The Independent is the only outlet explicitly linking the investigation to the White House visit in its headline. The New York Times does not cover the investigation here at all, instead foregrounding Dario Amodei’s White House dinner with Trump.
Written by Crossfiled from the 1 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.
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