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Lawsuit alleges OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and SpaceXAI colluded to slow AI development

tmj4.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 coordination occurred on Sept. 12 when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging industrywide slowdowns for safety, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis publicly agreed. Plaintiffs argue this collective restraint violates antitrust laws by reducing the value of paid subscriptions to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini. The plaintiffs, represented by lead attorney Nick Rowley, seek class-action status for paid subscribers and don't oppose individual company decisions to slow progress. President Donald Trump has rejected calls for AI regulation, calling them part of a "conspiracy," while Sen. Josh Hawley said he would not grant antitrust exemptions to the companies.

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