Four major AI companies—Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and SpaceX's xAI—face a class action lawsuit alleging illegal coordination to slow AI development after their leaders publicly endorsed a September proposal for an industry-wide safety-focused slowdown. The suit highlights tensions between AI safety efforts and antitrust law, with competitors like Mistral warning that such coordination could entrench market leaders and European regulators questioning whether cooperation on existential risks constitutes illegal cartel behavior.
OpenAI's integration of ChatGPT into Apple's Siri has underperformed since its December 2024 launch, with low user adoption despite a multi-step opt-in process. In court filings responding to Elon Musk's xAI lawsuit, OpenAI argues the non-exclusive agreement caused minimal market foreclosure and that xAI cannot prove competitive harm from the underperforming integration.