{"id":22169,"date":"2026-03-03T08:38:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/anthropics-ai-model-claude-gets-popularity-boost-after-us-military-feud\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:38:03","slug":"anthropics-ai-model-claude-gets-popularity-boost-after-us-military-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/anthropics-ai-model-claude-gets-popularity-boost-after-us-military-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic\u2019s AI model Claude gets popularity boost after US military feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claude climbs to top of app store charts in US and UK after being blacklisted by Pentagon over ethics concerns<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">AI<\/a> model Claude has surged in popularity after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/27\/trump-anthropic-ai-federal-agencies\">blacklisted<\/a> by the Pentagon last week over ethics concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Claude climbed to the No 1 spot on Apple\u2019s chart of top free apps on Saturday in the US \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/28\/anthropics-claude-apple-apps.html\">dethroning<\/a> OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, just one day after the Pentagon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/28\/openai-us-military-anthropic\">tapped<\/a> OpenAI to supply AI to classified military networks. The bot\u2019s app climbed the iPhone app charts in the UK but did not beat out ChatGPT. Claude also raced up the Android charts in the US and UK, though ChatGPT reigned supreme, according to data from <a href=\"https:\/\/app.sensortower.com\/top-charts?category=all&amp;country=US&amp;date=2026-03-02&amp;device=iphone&amp;os=android\">Sensor Tower<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/02\/claude-anthropic-ai-pentagon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/badad7339bb5c1e853007e7a22291494a6bb96d6\/1157_1586_3018_2414\/master\/3018.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ca19e8e5fd9828cf4d3c2f29de418d50\" title=\"Anthropic\u2019s AI model Claude gets popularity boost after US military feud\" \/>Claude climbs to top of app store charts in US and UK after being blacklisted by Pentagon over ethics concerns<br \/>\nThe AI model Claude has surged in popularity after being blacklisted by the Pentagon last week over ethics concerns.<br \/>\nClaude climbed to the No 1 spot on Apple\u2019s chart of top free apps on Saturday in the US \u2013 dethroning OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, just one day after the Pentagon tapped OpenAI to supply AI to classified military networks. The bot\u2019s app climbed the iPhone app charts in the UK but did not beat out ChatGPT. Claude also raced up the Android charts in the US and UK, though ChatGPT reigned supreme, according to data from Sensor Tower. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claude climbs to top of app store charts in US and UK after being blacklisted by Pentagon over ethics concerns The AI model Claude has surged in popularity after being blacklisted by the Pentagon last week over ethics concerns. Claude climbed to the No 1 spot on Apple\u2019s chart of top free apps on Saturday &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/anthropics-ai-model-claude-gets-popularity-boost-after-us-military-feud\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anthropic\u2019s AI model Claude gets popularity boost after US military feud<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}