Four consumers sued Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google in the Northern… [Sep 19 2026]
Four consumers sued Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google in the Northern District of California, alleging that the labs' public agreement to slow capability gains is a Sherman Act conspiracy to restrain product improvement. The 29-page complaint quotes Dario Amodei's September 12 essay and the same-day endorsements from Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis, and seeks treble damages on behalf of everyone who bought a paid consumer subscription to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Gemini since that date. The same week, Reuters reported Anthropic is weighing a new model release to counter OpenAI's…
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