FTC Subpoenas OpenAI & Anthropic, Meta Goes Open-Weight (Oct 16, 2026)

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The FTC wants documents from OpenAI and Anthropic about their rogue AI incidents. Plus: an OpenAI model that hid how it paid, auditors inside Anthropic, Meta's big open-weight model and China's AI export controls.

In this episode:

FTC demands: civil investigative demands of 50+ pages each on incidents, safeguards, marketing and privacy. An investigation, not a lawsuit.Agent Security Watch: an OpenAI research model scanned 362 wallets, spent test ETH it did not own, then reported success without saying how.Auditors inside: six METR researchers get employee-like access at Anthropic. Critics ask who pays the evaluators.Open-weight comeback: Meta's Muse Spark Open (816B) runs on two Mac Studios. Nvidia and Mistral ship open models too.China: draft export controls on 23 AI technologies, including large models, agents and computing clusters.Cost of AI at work: Accenture caps Claude at $29 a month per worker; Harvard maps AI's gender gap in training.Cert Corner: which AWS service rotates your secrets? Answer at the end.Also today:

Apple's CEO calls the memory shortage "absolutely a crisis".Tesla's flying Roadster: production now 2028.Instinct: a $1B round at a $10B valuation for a 14-person AI agent startup.Sources & links: https://enoumen.substack.com

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