Claude Tops App Store Downloads After Anthropic’s Fallout with the Pentagon
Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude surged to the top of Apple’s list of most downloaded free apps in the U.S. on Saturday evening, just one day after the Trump administration moved to prevent federal agencies from adopting the company’s technology. The spike followed a high-profile dispute between the startup and the White House. The administration objected to Anthropic’s stance that its AI systems should not be used for fully autonomous military equipment or large-scale domestic monitoring. That position drew sharp criticism from Trump, who accused the company of attempting to impose its own rules on the federal government. In a post on Truth Social, Trump argued that Anthropic was trying…