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843 Anthropic's Claude grabs top spot in App Store after Trump's ban

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Jackson Chen @ Engadget · 03/01/2026 14:36 EDT

Anthropic's Claude grabs top spot in App Store after Trump's ban

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, which respectively sit at the second and third spots on Apple's free apps charts.
The sudden surge in user downloads isn't random. It follows news that President Trump has barred any federal agency from using Anthropic's Claude or other AI tools after the AI company refused

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