On September 19, 2026, Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX AI, and Google faced collusion allegations in federal court. The complaint alleges that executives from these companies called for industry-wide coordination to control the pace of frontier AI development, constituting an illegal business agreement under antitrust laws. The plaintiff's attorney stated that the case aims to prevent top tech companies from causing AI to spiral out of human control through private agreements, emphasizing that in areas of significant risk, the rule of law should be established transparently by the U.S. government and held accountable to the public.
