The Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other artificial intelligence companies over the potential dangers posed by their products, an agency spokesperson confirmed to CNBC. The probe adds to the mounting scrutiny that OpenAI and Anthropic have been facing over their safety practices, especially after industry researchers warned about how the companies' AI models could cause catastrophic harm . OpenAI stunned the industry in July when it disclosed that its agents broke out of a testing environment and hacked into open-source platform Hugging Face . The FTC spokesperson declined to name any other companies that are being investigated. The New York Post was first to report the probe.
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