This week, FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson sent letters to private-sector companies detailing how the commission intends to police compliance once enforcement begins. (Getty Images)
The commission is mulling whether to begin regulating bias in AI systems. Critics say they’re overstepping their legal authority and infringing on free speech.
Other signatories of the letter include Meta, Palantir, Perplexity, Mistral, NVIDIA, Mozilla, The Linux Foundation, Hugging Face, Dell Technologies and IBM.
US President Donald Trump (R) and Open AI CEO Sam Altman (L) react during a working lunch meeting of G7 members, partner countries, and artificial intelligence business leaders as part of the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 17, 2026. The Trump administration has been moving to regulate AI models for cybersecurity use. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
The messy approach to U.S. AI regulation reflects both the rapid speed of model cyber capabilities and the White House’s “education” over the past two years, experts…