Four AI subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI and Google
A slowdown pact would cut the value of what they pay every month, four subscribers argue in a complaint filed Friday in the Northern District of California. All four pay for ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Gemini and want a nationwide class.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s Sept. 12 essay urged “industry-wide coordination” to “pace the frontier”. Within hours Elon Musk said “Dario is right”, Sam Altman agreed, and Demis Hassabis called it “the right path forward”, per the complaint.
The complaint also cites a July 2026 statement signed by senior staff at several labs about “intense competitive pressure not to unilaterally slow” development. Slowing down alone is fine, the plaintiffs say; agreeing to do it is the “shortcut” they call illegal.
The four companies did not immediately respond to AP’s request for comment Saturday.
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