SITUATION EXPLAINED: The FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic, and METR, the group they hired to investigate themselves. • It's a consumer protection probe, not antitrust, focused on unfair or deceptive practices under the FTC Act • Chairman Andrew Ferguson started it weeks ago, before the Hugging Face incident. He was at the White House signing ceremony on Tuesday • The agency is drafting civil investigative demands, effectively subpoenas, to compel executive testimony • METR is a target…