Reuters: The FTC will force Anthropic, OpenAI and METR executives to testify about rogue agents.

the industry-wide probe will also issue formal information demands, making it the first US enforcement action to examine the risks of so-called rogue AI agents.

METR's place on the list puts the auditor itself under scrutiny, because both OpenAI and Anthropic have worked with the nonprofit to independently investigate incidents involving their agentic systems.

The FTC's legal lever is its authority over unfair or deceptive practices, which it has previously used against companies that failed to reasonably secure consumer data.