AI Giants Sued for Antitrust as New Models Race to Market

Four paid subscribers have filed a federal antitrust lawsuit alleging that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google made an illegal agreement to slow the pace of AI development, arguing the coordinated slowdown reduces consumer value for paid AI subscriptions.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, centers on events from September 12, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging industrywide cooperation to decelerate...