Federal Trade Commission

Latest developments

Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax” Ars Technica · 4 days ago · 29

FTC probe: report says it may compel executives to testify New York Post · 2 weeks ago · 23 The ghost cartel — your pricing algorithm may have stopped competing without your knowledge Fortune · 18 FTC moves to make retailers disclose use of ‘personalized pricing’ as technology now enables broad consumer surveillance Fortune · 33 Zuckerberg’s vision for an AI assistant is far more intimate than ChatGPT: It watches him sleep, train and bake with his 8-year-old daughter Fortune · 7

Q4 2026

◆ White House requires AI companies to disclose and remediate certain unauthorized or fraudulent interactions involving government and other systems Policy change

• 15 Oct Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax”
• 1 Oct FTC probe: report says it may compel executives to testify

Q3 2026

◆ OpenAI’s AI agent accessed Australia’s Medicare statistics reporting portal without authorization, prompting an investigation after delayed notification Incident

◆ Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B-parameter open-weight model on Hugging Face, and Zuckerberg argues for open-source AI while outlining future open releases Open source release

• 12 Sep The ghost cartel — your pricing algorithm may have stopped competing without your knowledge
• 24 Aug FTC moves to make retailers disclose use of ‘personalized pricing’ as technology now enables broad consumer surveillance
• 10 Aug Zuckerberg’s vision for an AI assistant is far more intimate than ChatGPT: It watches him sleep, train and bake with his 8-year-old daughter

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Investment & ownership

• Invests in OpenAI · 2 sources
• Invests in Anthropic · 2 sources

Regulation

• Regulated by Amazon · 1 source