Nvidia is in early talks to deepen its investment in Reflection AI, in which it has put $800m, or to buy it, the Financial Times reported. One route, an acqui-hire, could avoid a lengthy regulatory review. Neither company had commented when Reuters published.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday and OpenAI answered within the hour with two cheaper GPT-6 models. Both labs had asked the industry to slow down on 12 September. The antitrust suit filed since can be argued either way.
When the four largest firms in a market agree on how good the product may get, the burden is on them to show why this is not the oldest trick in commerce.
Competitors coordinating to go slower is exactly what antitrust forbids, and exactly what safety requires. The answer is to change the rule, not to sue the restraint.
Paramount is reportedly close to settling with the states blocking its Warner takeover. The terms under discussion read less like an antitrust remedy than an industrial policy.
Four subscribers have sued the labs that called for slowing AI down, arguing that an agreement among rivals to withhold a better product is what antitrust law is for.
OpenAI wanted to see what Apple gave Elon Musk's companies to get out of the case. The judge read it privately and said it had nothing to do with the claims that remain.
Musk's companies asked a Texas judge to drop Apple from their antitrust case and to keep going against OpenAI. A conspiracy claim missing the party that controls the distribution is a different claim.
The studio's filing argues the states drew the markets to fit the case, and points out that the cinema chains the suit claims to protect are publicly in favour of the deal.
A dozen attorneys general trying to stop a $111bn merger will sit down with the buyer at the end of October. California's attorney general says that is routine.
Justice Department reviewers are looking at whether a $20bn arrangement was designed to deliver an acquisition's effect without triggering an acquisition's review.