"Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, called Anthropic a supply-chain risk last week, after CEO Dario Amodei refused to back down on red lines around the use of his company's technology for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. Amodei has said current AI models are not reliable enough to be used in these weapons and that mass surveillance violates constitutional rights."
"Claude climbed to the No 1 spot on Apple's chart of top free apps on Saturday in the US dethroning OpenAI's ChatGPT, just one day after the Pentagon tapped OpenAI to supply AI to classified military networks. Claude and other apps by the startup Anthropic suffered outages early Monday amid what the company described as unprecedented demand for Claude over the last week."
"Every single day last week was an all time record for Claude sign-ups, a statement from the company reads. Even as the company feuded with the Pentagon, business boomed."
Claude achieved the No. 1 position on Apple's US app charts, surpassing ChatGPT one day after the Pentagon selected OpenAI for classified military networks. The surge in popularity followed the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic due to ethics concerns. CEO Dario Amodei refused to compromise on restrictions against mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons use. The unprecedented demand caused service outages affecting over 1,400 users. Anthropic reported record sign-ups daily throughout the week. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk, while the Trump administration criticized the company's stance and ultimately awarded the contract to OpenAI instead.
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