A new lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google violated antitrust laws by agreeing to slow AI development. The coordination allegedly occurred on September 12 when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging industrywide deceleration, and OpenAI's Sam Altman, SpaceXAI's Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis publicly agreed. The suit, brought by paid subscribers, seeks class-action status and argues the agreement reduces consumer value.
Lawsuit Accuses AI Giants of Illegal Slowdown Agreement
Source: AP News