OpenAI, Google and other AI companies have been accused of colluding to slow the development of technology, The Hill newspaper reports.

A class-action lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google. The plaintiffs claim that the companies agreed to jointly slow the development of competing AI products.

The lawsuit states that the grounds for the case were public statements by the companies’ executives about the need to "slow the pace" of development of advanced models and coordinate such measures among the largest developers. The plaintiffs believe that such an agreement could violate U.S. antitrust laws.

They insist that restrictions in the AI sector should be determined by the government and by law, rather than by agreements between private company competitors. The defendants have not yet commented on the allegations.

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