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The Sherman Antitrust Act is the core US federal law banning monopolization and agreements that unreasonably restrain trade and competition.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the administration will not sponsor the federal liability waiver frontier AI labs spent eighteen months seeking. A dev.to analysis argues the cost of agent failures now gets settled through vendor indemnity terms and insurance pricing.
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A federal complaint asks whether rival labs may lawfully agree to advance more slowly, and its evidence is the companies' own published essays, a signed statement and reported working-group meetings.
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The complaint, filed six days after Dario Amodei's Sept. 12 essay, builds its conspiracy out of four public statements made on a single day. It asks a court to value capability that was never shipped.
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Buist v. Anthropic pleads a horizontal agreement to slow capability gains, assembled entirely from material the four defendants published themselves. A cross-company safety call is now discoverable evidence.
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Wired reports that leading AI companies asked for a coordinated development slowdown and worried aloud about antitrust in the same breath. Two former DOJ antitrust officials put adjacent conduct on opposite sides of the line.
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Chris Lehane has confirmed weeks of private safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, and Sam Altman has agreed to outside evaluators, though the two published accounts of that promise disagree on where the evaluators would sit.
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OpenAI says the joint work with Anthropic and Google DeepMind has been running for weeks. Its policy chief does not expect to need an antitrust waiver, Anthropic's CEO has asked Washington for one, and the FTC chairman says his alarm bells are going off.
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A judge in San Francisco will decide whether roughly $5.89 million in PlayStation Store credit, spread over 4,407,533 accounts, closes the Sherman Act case over Sony's 2019 decision to stop supplying retail download codes.
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The court ended first look, last look and mandatory uniform floors, but Google still owns both the ad server publishers depend on and the exchange it feeds, which makes AdX's decade-old 20% take rate the test.
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