Morning Edition · Saturday, November 14, 2026Published at 1:20 AM EST · New York
Public Citizen and three other groups bring a single claim under California's Unfair Competition Law, two months after a separate federal suit accused the same labs of illegally agreeing to slow development.

Four nonprofits, the Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative and the Alliance for Secure AI, sued Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceX's AI unit in San Francisco on November 12. The complaint brings a single clai…
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