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Antitrust Lawsuit Accuses AI Firms of Coordinated Slowdown

By Drooid · Sep 20, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC · How we work

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Plaintiffs filed an antitrust lawsuit against Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google in the Northern District of California on Friday.
Plaintiffs allege the companies coordinated on Sept. 12 to deliberately slow AI progress.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote an essay urging safety-first AI slowdown, which Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis endorsed.
Lead attorney Nick Rowley warned AI could “kill us all.”
President Donald Trump dismissed regulation, announced an AI task force and an “AI czar.”

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Plaintiffs filed an antitrust lawsuit against Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google in the Northern District of California on Friday.
Plaintiffs allege the companies coordinated on Sept. 12 to deliberately slow AI progress.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote an essay urging safety-first AI slowdown, which Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis endorsed.
Lead attorney Nick Rowley warned AI could “kill us all.”
President Donald Trump dismissed regulation, announced an AI task force and an “AI czar.”