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518 Anthropic's Claude Leaps to #2 on Apple's 'Top Apps' Chart After Pentagon Controversy

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/01/2026 03:34 EDT

Anthropic's Claude Leaps to #2 on Apple's 'Top Apps' Chart After Pentagon Controversy

Anthropic's Claude AI assistant "jumped to the No. 2 slot on Apple's chart of top U.S. free apps late on Friday," reports CNBC:


The rise in popularity suggests that Anthropic is benefiting from its presence in news headlines, stemming from its refusal to have its models used for mass domestic surveillance or for fully autonomous weapons... OpenAI's ChatGPT sat at No. 1 on the App Store rankings on Saturday, while Google's Gemini was at No. 3... On Jan. 30, [Claude] was ranked No. 131 in the U.S., and it b

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