Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google sued over call to ‘pace’ AI development

Source: Politico

“AI giants Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google are facing allegations of collusion following recent calls for a coordinated slowdown of AI development, according to a civil lawsuit filed in federal court Friday. The complaint claims that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s public plea earlier this month for ‘industry-wide coordination’ to ‘pace the frontier’ of AI advancement, which drew agreement from SpaceXAI head Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, amounted to an illegal business agreement between competitors under U.S. antitrust law.” (09/18/26)

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/18/anthropic-openai-spacexai-google-sued-over-calls-to-pace-ai-development-01085023