Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Google sued over calls to 'pace' AI development
Tolopono · reddit · 2026-09-19
Per Politico, Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Google have been sued over their calls to 'pace' AI development, with plaintiffs alleging illegal coordination between competitors—that jointly urging a slowdown may itself constitute collusion.
A landmark collision between AI-safety rhetoric and antitrust law: frontier labs' joint calls to slow down have become grounds for a lawsuit.
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