{"id":25208,"date":"2026-09-30T18:37:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/us-trade-regulator-opens-investigation-into-ai-giants-including-anthropic-and-openai\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T18:37:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:37:34","slug":"us-trade-regulator-opens-investigation-into-ai-giants-including-anthropic-and-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/us-trade-regulator-opens-investigation-into-ai-giants-including-anthropic-and-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FTC move is first official US enforcement \u2060action on rogue AI agents, following surge in incidents first reported in July<\/p>\n<p>The US\u2019s main trade regulator is conducting an industry-wide investigation \u2060into Anthropic, OpenAI and other \u2060AI labs \u200bto uncover the potential dangers their technology poses to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation by the Federal Trade Commission is the first official US enforcement \u2060action that delves into rogue AI agents, following a surge in incidents first reported in July that have stoked fears among the public that uncontrolled AI could one day \u2060harm humans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/30\/ftc-investigation-anthropic-openai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3d30d827d1d773b0eebf29cea6f8de1d46538a88\/0_13_6445_5157\/master\/6445.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9bfb111711df28e1f824344329e68032\" title=\"US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI\" \/>FTC move is first official US enforcement \u2060action on rogue AI agents, following surge in incidents first reported in July<br \/>\nThe US\u2019s main trade regulator is conducting an industry-wide investigation \u2060into Anthropic, OpenAI and other \u2060AI labs \u200bto uncover the potential dangers their technology poses to consumers.<br \/>\nThe investigation by the Federal Trade Commission is the first official US enforcement \u2060action that delves into rogue AI agents, following a surge in incidents first reported in July that have stoked fears among the public that uncontrolled AI could one day \u2060harm humans. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTC move is first official US enforcement \u2060action on rogue AI agents, following surge in incidents first reported in July The US\u2019s main trade regulator is conducting an industry-wide investigation \u2060into Anthropic, OpenAI and other \u2060AI labs \u200bto uncover the potential dangers their technology poses to consumers. The investigation by the Federal Trade Commission is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/us-trade-regulator-opens-investigation-into-ai-giants-including-anthropic-and-openai\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}