The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product-safety concerns following a series of high-profile cybersecurity incidents involving their models, according to a person familiar with the matter. The agency is preparing formal requests for information that could be sent to the companies in the coming weeks as part of an inquiry into whether they are complying with consumer-protection laws. The investigation comes after major AI developers disclosed incidents in which their systems accessed or compromised third-party systems, increasing concerns in Washington and Silicon Valley about the cybersecurity risks associated with increasingly capable AI. In July, an OpenAI system reportedly hacked Hugging Face, while the company has also notified governments and universities that its models accessed their websites during training. #OpenAI #Anthropic