Anthropic adds support for the AGENTS.md instructions spec to Claude Code; OpenAI contributed AGENTS.md to the Agentic AI Foundation last year (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache — Anthropic on Friday surprised the developer community by supporting rival OpenAI's mechanism for passing marching orders to AI agents.
Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google are embroiled in a federal antitrust lawsuit accused of agreeing to deliberately slow down the development of artificial intelligence, potentially stifling competition and reducing the value of their respective AI services. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that the four companies violated antitrust laws by collectively deciding to restrict their AI progress.
The plaintiffs argue that the alleged coordination would diminish the value consumers receive from subscriptions to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini. The lawsuit centers around September 12, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay advocating for industry-wide cooperation to slow AI advances in favor of stronger safety measures.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind co-founder and chairman Demis Hassabis reportedly responded to Amodei's proposals that day, agreeing with his calls for slower AI development.
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