FTC Investigating Tech Giants Over AI’s Potential Threat to Consumers
The FTC is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic regarding potential consumer safety risks posed by AI agents, according to Reuters.
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The FTC is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic regarding potential consumer safety risks posed by AI agents, according to Reuters.
Bill Ackman notes narrow market focus on major IPOs and praises Anthropic's business growth, noting its anticipated public debut.
JPMorgan's Sitara Sundar advises investors to diversify AI bets amid the volatility of overlapping technology cycles.
Delaware's proposed legislation for AI-run companies faces hurdles as rogue agent incidents highlight boundary enforcement challenges.
NVIDIA released NeMo Relay, a tool designed to trace agent harness behavior, identifying inefficient paths and execution errors in multi-step workflows.
Google Cloud makes Spanner Omni generally available, offering its distributed multi-model database for multi-cloud and on-premises deployments.
Google Cloud launched a remote Model Context Protocol server in preview to enable AI agents to execute gcloud and BigQuery CLI tools.
The US SEC voted to propose rule amendments expanding retail investor access and capital formation in private markets.
CoreWeave launched Forge, a suite of development tools designed to help clients train and improve AI models beyond raw compute hosting.
AWS published a technical guide for building conversational insurance claims assistants using Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases.
The US administration announced a voluntary AI self-regulation agreement with tech firms, introducing potential compliance uncertainty.
AWS announced Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Instances for multi-agent workflows with managed GPUs, persistent volumes, and multi-day sessions.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is chairing a private-sector cross-industry coalition targeting critical national infrastructure security.
Gimlet Labs co-founder Natalie Serrino discusses multi-silicon clouds, LLM disaggregation, and chip lifecycle strategies.
JPMorgan Private Bank's Sitara Sundar advises investors to diversify across the AI value chain, calling current tech volatility healthy.
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller stated that agentic commerce requires banks to adapt authentication for AI-initiated transactions.
The US FTC is scrutinizing OpenAI and Anthropic over product safety and cybersecurity concerns, according to reports.
ElevenLabs valuation reaches $22bn as existing investors and employees sell $300mn in secondary stock.
The European Banking Authority published its 2027 work programme via email alert.
Google has reportedly launched a pilot program to pay publishers for their content used in AI search features.
Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman will discuss compute, energy and infrastructure constraints for AI scaling at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Restate raises $20M for its custom storage and execution engine designed to support durable infrastructure for AI agents.
Robinhood launched customer-built AI agents to assist retail investors with research, strategy development, and automated trading.
The Bank of England warned that surging debt used to fund AI infrastructure poses systemic financial stability risks.
Google Threat Intelligence Group analyzes how AI is altering vulnerability discovery, exploitation speed, and enterprise risk profiles.
KKR warns that heavy borrowing for AI infrastructure creates concentration risks and potential volatility if the sector faces a downturn.
Cloudflare launched an AI Gateway feature that automatically routes requests to optimal models using edge classification to cut token costs.
Cloudflare Workers added built-in error monitoring to send production stack traces and logs directly to coding agents for automated PRs.
Cloudflare updated its registrar API and CLI to enable autonomous agents to search, register, and transfer domain names.
Cloudflare launched a Monetization Gateway beta using HTTP 402 to let AI agents pay for API, token, and MCP tool access.