One day after White House pledge, FTC opens sweeping probe of Anthropic and OpenAI
diegoposts · x · 2026-10-01
On Tuesday, AI labs signed a one-page White House pledge to self-police frontier models — no penalties, no deadlines, self-chosen auditors. By Wednesday, the FTC opened a sweeping probe of Anthropic and OpenAI anyway, with formal demands and executive testimony coming in weeks. The author mocks the "morally binding" pledge and asks: should labs or the feds grade the homework?
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