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OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out

Musk voluntarily dismissed all antitrust claims against Apple but continues pursuing OpenAI over alleged ChatGPT-iPhone chatbot market monopolization.

Elon Musk filed court papers confirming all claims against Apple over its ChatGPT iPhone integration are resolved, agreeing never to raise them again. He refuses to drop parallel claims that OpenAI used the non-exclusive Apple deal to monopolize the chatbot market. OpenAI has dismissed the suit as harassment as Musk's AI firm, now called SpaceXAI, races to catch up.

Ars Technica · AI · 2d agoAI industry

Not everyone is convinced that Big AI's proposed development slowdown is really about safety

Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and others blast OpenAI, Anthropic and Google's proposed frontier AI slowdown as anticompetitive 'cartel by another name.'

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for industry and government coordination to slow frontier AI development, requesting antitrust exemptions, with backing from Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez called the proposal a cartel designed to lock in barriers like massive compute and permanent monitoring, while Hugging Face's Niels Rogge and White House AI czar David Sacks also pushed back. Trump labeled AI takeover warnings a hoax, and China rejected the slowdown plans as a US ploy.

The Decoder · 2d agoAI industry