OpenAI prepares to fight for its life as legal troubles mount

OpenAI is also at the center of several regulatory investigations, which have forced the company to spend even more on legal support. The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into whether investors were misled during the chaotic period when Altman briefly left the company. The Federal Trade Commission is probing whether it ran afoul of consumer protection laws in a number of areas, including a data leak and ChatGPT's inaccurate claims. And the commission has had talks with the Justice Department about which agency should probe its multibillion-dollar partnership with Microsoft, amid concerns that such deals are dampening competition in the quickly evolving AI market.