Lawsuit accuses Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google of illegal AI slowdown pact

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A new 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, violating antitrust laws and reducing consumer value for paid subscriptions. The suit claims coordination occurred on Sept. 12, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging industrywide slowdowns for safety, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis publicly agreed. Four named plaintiffs, paying for ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Gemini, seek class-action status for all paid subscribers. Lead attorney Nick Rowley argued private safety agreements among for-profit tech giants could let AI spin out of control. Amodei had suggested a government waiver for safety talks, while Altman said a federal framework is welcome but not required. Companies did not respond to comment requests Saturday.


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