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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nEarlier this month, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged AI companies to slow how quickly they improve their most advanced models and called for stronger government oversight. President Donald Trump convened top executives from Alphabet, Meta, SpaceX, Nvidia, Palantir, Anthropic, OpenAI and other companies to discuss the issue. The group signed a short voluntary, nonbinding accord.
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