Major AI Companies Face Antitrust Lawsuit Over Alleged Agreement to Slow AI Development
Four paying subscribers filed a class-action lawsuit against Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google, alleging the companies violated antitrust laws by coordinating to slow AI development. The complaint centers on Dario Amodei's September 12 essay proposing industrywide cooperation on decelerating AI advancements, which received public support from Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis.