Anthropic gets so much public support after Trump blacklisting that it crashes the Claude app

Anthropic may have lost a fan in Donald Trump, but it seems to have gained plenty of new ones after refusing to make a deal with the United States government, citing ethics concerns.

The AI company was embroiled in debate with the Department of Defense (DoD), which has been using Anthropic’s technology internally at various levels. After the DoD announced it would only contract with AI companies that acceded to “any lawful use” of their products, Anthropic pushed back, asking that certain...