Anthropic's Claude Tops U.S. App Store Amid Dispute

Anthropic’s Claude became the number-one free app in the U.S. App Store in February, briefly surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini after climbing from position 131 on January 30. The surge coincides with a public dispute: Anthropic reportedly refused a rumored $200 million Pentagon request for unrestricted model use and weapons embedding, prompting criticism from former President Donald Trump and a reported Pentagon deal with OpenAI.