{"id":4953,"date":"2026-09-20T01:15:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T01:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2026-09-20T01:15:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T01:15:57","slug":"lawsuit-claims-anthropic-openai-spacexai-and-google-illegally-agreed-to-coordinate-ai-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=4953","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google illegally agreed to coordinate AI slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AP26262593036783-e1789849457140.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made an illegal deal to\u00a0slow the pace\u00a0of their respective AI development.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 get for paid AI subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The coordination largely took place on Sept. 12, the lawsuit argues, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay\u00a0urging for industrywide cooperation\u00a0on decelerating advancements in favor of enhanced safety measures. That same day, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind\u2019s co-founder and chair Demis Hassabis each publicly\u00a0responded to Amodei\u2019s proposals in agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s clear that an agreement among the chief rivals in AI that their progress \u201cshould be slower than competition would otherwise produce has an anticompetitive effect on consumers,\u201d the plaintiffs argue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawyers representing four named plaintiffs, who pay for subscriptions to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Gemini, are bringing the suit on behalf of a proposed nationwide class of other paid subscribers to those services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAI will quickly spin out of human control and could kill us all if we allow AI safety and protocol \u2026 to be controlled by private self-serving agreements between the world\u2019s most powerful \u2018for profit\u2019 technology companies,\u201d said Nick Rowley, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Representatives for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his initial essay proposing the slowdown, Amodei acknowledged potential antitrust challenges, writing that it would be helpful for the U.S. government to mediate \u201cor at least enable\u201d these cross-lab discussions. The government wouldn\u2019t need to participate, he wrote, but would need to \u201cissue a narrow waiver for certain kinds of safety conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response, Altman said on social media that OpenAI welcomes the idea of a \u201cfederal framework that sets consistent safety requirements,\u201d but said \u201cwe do not believe we need to wait for an anti-trust exemption or legislation to begin the work of providing this confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the recent conversations about pacing development were spurred by increasing concerns about\u00a0AI evading human control, several leaders in the AI space have long talked about developing a shared set of standards or otherwise coordinating to ensure safety efforts remain paramount.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plaintiffs in the lawsuit contend they are not against the AI companies asking Congress, the White House or any other agency to develop AI regulation, nor are they against the companies asking for an antitrust exemption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But achieving that kind of collaboration with the federal government could be an uphill battle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump rejected the calls\u00a0for regulation on social media. He has claimed that any efforts to limit the technology are part of a \u201cconspiracy.\u201d He called into question why the industry leaders would be calling for regulation that, he says, \u201cif strongly implemented, will drive them into oblivion and bankruptcy.\u201d Trump said Saturday on social media that he is forming an AI task force and will appoint an \u201cAI czar,\u201d but provided scant detail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration has been vocal about wanting American AI labs to outpace and\u00a0excel past Chinese competition. While\u00a0several Democratic leaders and candidates\u00a0have called for sweeping action on AI regulation, Republicans have largely mirrored Trump\u2019s position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.,\u00a0said in a recent Senate hearing that \u201cthere is no world\u201d in which he would agree to give \u201cthe most powerful companies in the history of the world\u201d an exemption from antitrust laws to collaborate, arguing that they could collude together and stifle competition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Lawsuit #claims #Anthropic #OpenAI #SpaceXAI #Google #illegally #agreed #coordinate #slowdown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new lawsuit claims Anthropic&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8011,428,1863,8012,636,8010,682,480,2197,8009],"class_list":["post-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-agreed","tag-anthropic","tag-claims","tag-coordinate","tag-google","tag-illegally","tag-lawsuit","tag-openai","tag-slowdown","tag-spacexai"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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