FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents

The FTC has sent civil subpoenas to OpenAI and Anthropic, the companies behind ChatGPT and Claude, seeking records about safety incidents as it examines potential consumer-protection violations. A subpoena is a demand for evidence, not a finding that either company broke the law; the regulator is still gathering material before deciding whether to pursue a case. The inquiry puts AI safety within the FTC’s consumer-protection remit in this case. It brings the companies’ safeguards and the way their products behave under regulatory scrutiny.