Lawsuit accuses Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google of AI pacing ‘collusion’

AI companies Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google are being sued over alleged collusion to slow AI development. The complaint, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, points to a recent proposal from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calling for 'industry-wide coordination' as evidence of a pact to pace progress.