{"id":1571314,"date":"2025-09-11T13:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/ftc-launches-inquiry-into-ai-chatbots-acting-as-companions-federal-trade-commission-gov\/1571314\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:36:03","slug":"ftc-launches-inquiry-into-ai-chatbots-acting-as-companions-federal-trade-commission-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/ftc-launches-inquiry-into-ai-chatbots-acting-as-companions-federal-trade-commission-gov\/1571314\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Launches Inquiry into AI Chatbots Acting as Companions &#8211; Federal Trade Commission (.gov)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirwFBVV95cUxQMjFVNlpjcmpFMm5vcEgtVUZQZXgwTndmdzdpLXIwNWRicEtMRFBVb1NkczdfSXc5b2xtT0NObmdIcnQ0RmZlcFgxenBoMExmME1lZkhVdmZiRGl3V3hqRTJMbUlJQi1XeXlWY2Y3Mjl4UkhFN1ZqTlVDS0FjNTJvakJUZXRqMVlMS0JVX0swZGtEV2NDenNHM2Z1cWxGMGFoZXE1bE9HTHQxSGFjQ2g0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">FTC Launches Inquiry into AI Chatbots Acting as Companions<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Federal Trade Commission (.gov)<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikAFBVV95cUxQQUJCWGFjdWV5SVMtOGdadC1PalA4RkJ6QW43aV95eVI3R0F1UHdtQUdhemVXa0FHSUtOZ3B2a3p4LTJ0cmtuVlZTTTNYbFNKNEluRnN2NVY1endoNWxjUDdmSEdoVXVsOEY5c0NNdkx5V244R3lQSDUwZ3pEaU5JRllBdktFdmdPY0wycFFzeDM?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">FTC investigating AI \u2018companion\u2019 chatbots amid growing concern about harm to kids<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0CNN<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE5pdGl6N0NMcGVoN3JJVE5IeWxLajVQZUVaS2hEZDhEWF9rLWhZSVJ3MWNlakpHWlVqVWFqLUV0N1U0Sm5Wd2U0cnRXVmloa0lkTGg3ZGFpOVNSNkh5Wm9vbG5nbGdCUlhyVWotQUtIZTRsVFR5c09NLVYzaHpMbVnSAYQBQVVfeXFMUHBOelVXV0xEbklQVlVTdzFjNENockgyUlZoU1ZVMm0zN0RVZ3djRHQtLWRjMXVDdFBTSE9Ma3VfeE5HeklVR0cxWFQxYVUzOGZZTjIzRmlhSHBtMlVCTzBXWFpnQU1JY1dXR0xsTzZpRXBYalJkUTZQLUV2cDFCcGQ0WHFD?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Alphabet, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Snap face FTC probe over AI chatbot safety for kids<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0CNBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE9qUjl2SUNLVEJiNjlwU1NsaGVZMnFKNU1fMldKcTBRZXhxNUFOUXpaclgzajItWXpqdzM5Z0dDNThDbTB3MU53ci1PM0lOdkFTSXd5NkIydVo2bG55cE5GdGs5ZGFUdDRiNDhwMVIxWW5IX0JoVVZ5UGprTWVYNmc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI, Meta, Google face probe into chatbot safety<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Axios<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirAFBVV95cUxNNTJ4eUFpUlRDWVlhdW5yU0hIbFB1ZldGamJZWGZ2UFZqUzh6TEF1ZUFHOFh5Nm5GMHF5ZVVLTFd4bDdHbnVzdlVJZ3lLV1U4SU9lRUVVUXZwZjhxWmpHLUg0cjJaXzRtV3g0N3ZyTHY0UVRHTmZoWTVURlFQVTBfX2lzb2ozWHk3aXdiYVB6YWMxYndEdF9PVzlOODFDTjZTSkpxYVFVV1B1ZDhq?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbots of Alphabet, Meta, five others<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Reuters<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirwFBVV95cUxQMjFVNlpjcmpFMm5vcEgtVUZQZXgwTndmdzdpLXIwNWRicEtMRFBVb1NkczdfSXc5b2xtT0NObmdIcnQ0RmZlcFgxenBoMExmME1lZkhVdmZiRGl3V3hqRTJMbUlJQi1XeXlWY2Y3Mjl4UkhFN1ZqTlVDS0FjNTJvakJUZXRqMVlMS0JVX0swZGtEV2NDenNHM2Z1cWxGMGFoZXE1bE9HTHQxSGFjQ2g0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirwFBVV95cUxQMjFVNlpjcmpFMm5vcEgtVUZQZXgwTndmdzdpLXIwNWRicEtMRFBVb1NkczdfSXc5b2xtT0NObmdIcnQ0RmZlcFgxenBoMExmME1lZkhVdmZiRGl3V3hqRTJMbUlJQi1XeXlWY2Y3Mjl4UkhFN1ZqTlVDS0FjNTJvakJUZXRqMVlMS0JVX0swZGtEV2NDenNHM2Z1cWxGMGFoZXE1bE9HTHQxSGFjQ2g0?oc=5<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTC Launches Inquiry into AI Chatbots Acting as Companions\u00a0\u00a0Federal Trade Commission (.gov)FTC investigating AI \u2018companion\u2019 chatbots amid growing concern about harm to kids\u00a0\u00a0CNNAlphabet, Meta, OpenAI,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}