Anthropic’s Claude chatbot climbs to no.1 on Apple’s US App Store amid Pentagon contract row

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Anthropic’s chatbot Claude has reached number one in the free rankings on the US Apple App Store, overtaking OpenAI’s ChatGPT, with record registrations and rising subscriptions. The milestone comes amid tensions with the Pentagon after Donald Trump halted federal use of Anthropic’s systems over national security concerns.