{"id":244257,"date":"2026-09-19T13:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/lawsuit-says-anthropic-openai-spacexai-and-google-made-illegal-agreement-on-ai-slowdown"},"modified":"2026-09-19T13:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:06:59","slug":"lawsuit-says-anthropic-openai-spacexai-and-google-made-illegal-agreement-on-ai-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/lawsuit-says-anthropic-openai-spacexai-and-google-made-illegal-agreement-on-ai-slowdown","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made illegal agreement on AI slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lawsuit-says-anthropic-openai-spacexai-and-google-made-illegal-agreement-on-ai-slowdown3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anti Trust these Anti AI dopes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made an illegal deal to <a class=\"\" data-gtm-enhancement- href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ai-slowdown-challenges-anthropic-openai-trump-b61f28b6212338e88c0baec31f661701\">slow the pace<\/a> of their respective AI development.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, which was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that the leading AI companies violated antitrust laws when they agreed to coordinate slowdown efforts, and that doing so would reduce the value consumers get for paid AI subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>The coordination largely took place on Sept. 12, the lawsuit argues, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay <a class=\"\" data-gtm-enhancement- href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/anthropic-ai-dario-amodei-d59552edcb27892d8ee4d98a48397706\">urging for industrywide cooperation<\/a> on decelerating advancements in favor of enhanced safety measures. That same day, OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman, SpaceXAI\u2019s Elon Musk and Google DeepMind\u2019s Demis Hassabis each publicly <a class=\"\" data-gtm-enhancement- href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ai-slowdown-anthropic-openai-meta-nvidia-1d9615931af28a83cb97489178e90f2d\">responded to Amodei\u2019s proposals in agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti Trust these Anti AI dopes. A new lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made an illegal deal to slow the pace of their respective AI development. The lawsuit, which was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that the leading AI companies violated antitrust laws when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}