Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made illegal agreement on AI slowdown
A new lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made an illegal deal to slow the pace of their respective AI development. The lawsuit, which was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that the leading AI companies violated antitrust laws when they agreed to coordinate slowdown efforts, and that doing so would reduce the value consumers…
A lawsuit alleges that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google conspired to artificially curtail their respective advancements in artificial intelligence. Filed on Friday in the Northern District of California, the legal action contends that the tech giants breached antitrust regulations through their coordinated slowdown initiative.
The primary catalyst, the lawsuit asserts, was the Sept. 12 announcement by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei advocating for a collective deceleration of progress towards safer AI systems. On the same day, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind co-founder and chair Demis Hassabis all publicly endorsed Amodei's recommendations.
However, the suit suggests the collusion began well before that date. It cites a July 2026 statement from high-ranking officials at major AI labs, indicating an awareness of fierce competitive pressures to maintain the status quo rather than take unilateral action.
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