# Four Nonprofits Ask San Francisco Court to Bar Five Labs From Building Models More Capable Than Their Current Frontier

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.

- Published: 2026-11-14T06:20:14.641Z
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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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