Anthropic's Claude app has overtaken ChatGPT in U.S. daily downloads and is seeing explosive growth in daily active users — reaching 11.3 million on March 2 — as consumers rally behind the company after its refusal to allow AI use in mass domestic surveillance.
Anthropic's Claude app surpasses 1 million new sign-ups per day and overtakes ChatGPT in US daily downloads, as the Pentagon dispute paradoxically fuels a massive wave of consumer support.
Anthropic released a major economic research paper introducing a new 'observed exposure' metric for AI labor displacement, finding that while higher-exposure occupations show slower projected job growth, there is no systematic rise in unemployment yet.
Anthropic's Claude AI experienced a major outage affecting Claude.ai and Claude Code login services on March 2, 2026, following a massive influx of users switching from ChatGPT after OpenAI's Pentagon deal.
Anthropic rolls out a free memory feature for all Claude users and introduces a ChatGPT data import tool, capitalizing on a wave of users switching from OpenAI following the Pentagon deal controversy.
U.S. ChatGPT uninstalls jumped 295% day-over-day after OpenAI's Pentagon deal was announced, while Anthropic's Claude surged to the top of the U.S. App Store as users switched platforms over AI ethics concerns.
The US military relied on Anthropic's Claude AI for intelligence assessments and target identification during Saturday's strikes on Iran, even as President Trump had just ordered federal agencies to immediately cease using the tool — exposing a stark contradiction at the heart of Washington's AI policy.
Following the high-profile dispute with the Pentagon, Anthropic's AI chatbot, Claude, has seen a surge in popularity, climbing to the number two spot in Apple's U.S. App Store.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly rejected the Pentagon's last-and-final contract offer, refusing to allow Claude AI to be used for autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance despite threats of blacklisting and Defense Production Act enforcement.
Anthropic released an updated Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP v3.0) that critics say rolls back flagship safety pledges, coinciding with intense pressure from the Pentagon over military AI use.
Anthropic unveiled its most aggressive enterprise push yet, releasing industry-specific Claude Cowork plug-ins for finance, HR, legal, and engineering, alongside new connectors for Gmail, DocuSign, and Clay.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act and label Anthropic a supply chain risk unless it grants the U.S. military unrestricted access to its Claude AI model by Friday.
Anthropic publicly accused Chinese AI laboratories of systematically extracting knowledge from its Claude models through distillation attacks, releasing new detection and prevention research as the US debates AI chip export controls.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth amid a standoff over the military's use of its AI model, Claude, with the Pentagon threatening to label the company a 'supply chain risk'.
Anthropic faces a severe threat as the Pentagon signals it may designate the company a 'supply chain risk' after disputes over Claude's use in military operations, including the Maduro raid, putting a $200M DoD contract at risk.
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6, delivering frontier AI performance in coding, computer use, and agents with 1M token context window, just 12 days after Opus 4.6.
U.S. military deployed Anthropic's Claude AI during the operation to capture Venezuelan President Maduro, triggering tensions over AI ethics and military use policies.
Claude app reaches No. 7 on US App Store after Anthropic's darkly comedic Super Bowl commercials criticizing AI chatbot ads drive 32% download increase.
AI startup Anthropic closes $30B Series G funding led by GIC and Coatue, achieving $380B valuation with $14B run-rate revenue growing 10x annually.
Claude Opus 4.6 achieves breakthrough performance with 65.4% on Terminal-Bench and 72.7% on OSWorld, surpassing Gemini 3 Flash in real-world work applications.
