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Subscribers challenge coordinated frontier pacing
The legal theory challenges coordinated pacing as competition policy rather than evaluating model safety.
Claim
Subscribers sued OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and SpaceXAI under the Sherman Act, alleging that their frontier-pacing statement constituted an anticompetitive agreement.
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Sources
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- Welcome to September 20, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
- sued all four labs under the Sherman Act (news.bloomberglaw.com)
- “an agreement among competitors about how fast their competing products will improve.” (www.bloomberglaw.com)
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