"After Anthropic attempted to negotiate for safeguards preventing the Department of Defense from using its AI models for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, President Donald Trump directed federal agencies to stop using all Anthropic products and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said he's designating the company a supply-chain threat."
"According to data from SensorTower, Claude was just outside the top 100 at the end of January, and has spent most of February somewhere in the top 20. Its ranking has climbed in the last few days, from sixth on Wednesday to fourth on Thursday to second on Saturday."
"As first reported by CNBC, as of Saturday afternoon, Claude is currently ranked number two among free apps in Apple's US App Store - the number one app is OpenAI's ChatGPT, and number three is Google Gemini."
Claude, Anthropic's chatbot, has rapidly climbed Apple's US App Store rankings to number two, behind only OpenAI's ChatGPT. The surge coincides with Anthropic's negotiations with the Pentagon regarding safeguards against domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons use. After Anthropic's stance, President Trump directed federal agencies to cease using Anthropic products and designated the company a supply-chain threat. OpenAI subsequently announced its own Pentagon agreement with claimed safeguards. Claude's ranking jumped dramatically from outside the top 100 in late January to number two by early February, suggesting the controversy may have increased user interest and downloads.
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