Antitrust Suit Alleges Top Labs Colluded to Slow AI Down

A lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google coordinated to slow AI progress — putting industry safety cooperation on a collision course with competition law.

A new antitrust lawsuit alleges that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google colluded to slow AI development, according to @mikogen. The suit reframes what the labs have long described as responsible safety coordination as something more legally fraught: collusion among competitors to restrain output.

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