OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman is scheduled to brief the UN Security Council next week. The meeting will focus on AI-related topics and global security concerns. (reuters.com)
Lawsuit: Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made illegal slowdown agreement
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A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California alleges that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google illegally coordinated to slow the pace of advanced AI development, harming consumers who pay for AI subscriptions. Plaintiffs point to an essay by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sept. 12 urging industrywide deceleration and public endorsements that day from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis. The complaint also cites a July 2026 statement signed by senior employees across leading labs acknowledging competitive pressure not to slow unilaterally and asking the government to back a global slowdown. Four named subscribers to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini seek to represent a nationwide class of paid users.
The lawsuit frames those coordinated signals as an antitrust violation because a collective agreement to slow progress would reduce the value subscribers receive, substituting concerted restraint for individual market accountability. Plaintiffs say they do not oppose solitary, safety-driven pacing but challenge private agreements among rivals. Amodei himself acknowledged antitrust hurdles and asked for government facilitation or a narrow waiver; Altman welcomed a federal safety framework while rejecting the need to wait for antitrust relief. Political leaders are split, with the White House and many Republicans opposing regulatory constraints and some senators explicitly rejecting antitrust exemptions for tech giants. Representatives for the companies did not immediately comment.
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