Politics & Government
Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Deal On AI Slowdown
Amodei warned that swarms of rogue AI agents could take over the internet in as little as six months.
September 21, 2026
A new lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX AI, and Google made an illegal deal to slow the pace of their respective AI development.
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The lawsuit, which was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues the leading AI companies violated antitrust laws when they agreed to coordinate slowdown efforts, and that doing so would reduce the value consumers get for paid AI subscriptions.
The coordination largely took place on Sept. 12, the lawsuit argues, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging for industrywide cooperation on decelerating advancements in favor of enhanced safety measures.
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