Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX/xAI and Google hit with antitrust suit over alleged pact to slow AI development
MC995 · hn · 2026-09-22
Per Tom's Hardware, Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX/xAI and Google face an antitrust lawsuit alleging they agreed to slow down AI development. Plaintiffs claim the plan had been in motion for months before the companies publicly dismissed the agreement as self-serving. The core question: whether coordinated "pacing" among frontier labs amounts to unlawful collusion.
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