Lawsuit Alleges AI Giants Colluded to Slow Down Development
A lawsuit has been filed against leading AI companies Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google for allegedly making an illegal agreement to slow down their respective AI development.
The plaintiffs argue that this coordination, which took place on September 12, violates antitrust laws. They point out that the CEOs of these companies publicly responded to a proposal by Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei, urging industrywide cooperation on slowing down advancements in favor of enhanced safety measures.
This coordination is believed to have begun months earlier, with a statement from July 2026 signed by high-ranking employees acknowledging the 'intense competitive pressure not to unilaterally slow' development. The plaintiffs argue that an agreement among these chief rivals has an anticompetitive effect on consumers.