Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence assistant app jumped to the No. 1 slot on Apple's chart of top U.S. free apps late on Saturday, a day after the Trump administration sought to block government agencies' adoption of the startup's technology.

OpenAI secured a Pentagon deal, sparking backlash and shifting some users' loyalties to Anthropic's rival Claude chatbot.

When Hegseth and Amodei met Tuesday, military officials warned that they could designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, cancel its contract or invoke a Cold War-era law called the Defense Production Act to give the military more sweeping authority to use its products, even if the company doesn’t approve.

In the battle for AI supremacy, Anthropic’s Claude has just managed to dethrone OpenAI’s ChatGPT in Apple’s App Store, claiming the #1 spot as the most-downloaded free app in the United States, leaving ChatGPT in second and Google’s Gemini a distant fourth.

Anthropic CEO has pushed back strongly against the Pentagon's requests to remove AI guardrails from Claude. Anthropic takes a concrete stance against mass surveillance and autonomous killing

Over a 1,000 users are reporting that Anthropic's Claude AI service is currently experiencing issues. The company is working on a fix.

AI chatbots currently take up the top three spots on the US App Store’s Top Downloaded charts. For Anthropic’s

Katy Perry's Claude Pro purchase screenshot had a love heart drawn on it, which many took as a sign of support for Anthropic.

Anthropic may have lost out on doing business with the US government, but it's gained enough popularity to earn the number one spot on the App Store's Top Free Apps leaderboard. At the top, Claude beat out both ChatGPT and Google Gemini,

Claude Code flaws allow remote code execution and API key theft via untrusted repositories; three bugs fixed across 2025–2026 releases.

Only hours after President Donald Trump announced that federal agencies should sever all ties