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The frontier AI race’s latest safety proposal would have the leading contenders agree on how fast to run. Antitrust law has a less flattering name for that arrangement: a cartel. That is the central problem with the “pacing the frontier” plan that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei unveiled last weekend, and that fellow AI executives Sam … Move Slow and Collude: The Antitrust Problem With Pacing AI
I’ve criticized plenty of private antitrust cases. This may be the first in which the plaintiffs sued to stop a genuinely bad idea—and I still think they should lose. That is the odd posture of the antitrust challenge to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan for subsidized grocery stores in New York City. On Sept. 9, the … Checkout Error: A Bad Grocery Plan Meets a Weak Antitrust Case
The State of New Jersey’s antitrust case against Amazon begins with a serious allegation: that Amazon restricted drivers from moving among competing delivery contractors. But the state’s complaint goes much farther. It argues that Amazon’s entire Delivery Service Partner (DSP) system unlawfully gives the company monopsony power over both the small businesses that deliver its … Prime Targets: Amazon, No-Poach Rules, and the Limits of Antitrust
