FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents
THE SO WHAT
The FTC moving from inquiries to subpoenas on AI safety incidents turns model behavior into a regulatory record, not just an internal risk log. Any team shipping frontier-model features into production should assume post-hoc discovery — tighten incident tracking, red-teaming, and audit trails now.
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