In a filing submitted Friday to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, a lawsuit alleges that Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and SpaceXAI entered into an illegal agreement to slow the pace of artificial‑intelligence development.
The complaint claims the four tech giants coordinated efforts to abate AI progress, arguing that such a slowdown would reduce the value consumers receive from paid AI subscriptions. The plaintiffs, who pay for services such as ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini, say antitrust laws “do not permit competitors to decide among themselves that competition is too dangerous.” The lawyers represent four named subscribers and a proposed nationwide class of other paid users.
Central to the case is an essay by Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei titled “We Must Pace the Frontier.” The lawsuit notes that tech leaders Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis have publicly endorsed the suggestions contained in Amodei’s essay.
President Donald Trump has rejected calls to slow AI development, citing the United States’ competition with China. On Saturday, he announced the creation of an “AI Force” and declared that the administration would “in any way hinder or stifle” the growth of the AI industry.
Trump described AI as the next industrial revolution, saying it will be “even larger and more impactful” than the internet. He added that the government will remain vigilant through the existing criminal and civil justice system, while dismissing fears about AI’s potential dangers.
<small>Source: Daily Post Nigeria — read the original story there.</small>
