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Antitrust lawsuit accuses AI firms of illegal slowdown pact

wcpo.com — September 21, 2026 at 06:01 PM UTC

A new antitrust lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleges Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made an illegal agreement to slow AI development, potentially harming paid subscribers. The lawsuit claims the companies coordinated slowdown efforts, largely on Sept. 12, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging industrywide cooperation on decelerating advancements for safety, and other CEOs publicly agreed. Plaintiffs argue this reduces value for paid subscribers to services like ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini. The plaintiffs say they don't object to individual companies slowing their own progress, but argue antitrust laws forbid collective restraint. President Donald Trump has rejected calls for regulation, while Sen. Josh Hawley said he would not grant an antitrust exemption.

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