Anthropic’s Claude overtakes ChatGPT in App Store as users boycott over OpenAI’s $200 million Pentagon contract

OpenAI replaced Anthropic on a Pentagon deal worth up to $200 million, but in doing so, it may have handed its biggest rival a victory by pushing them to the top of the App Store.

Anthropic’s Claude climbed to the No. 1 spot on Apple’s App Store over the weekend, dethroning ChatGPT just days after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced his company had supplanted Anthropic by striking a nine-figure deal with the U.S. Department of War.

Before the release of Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads—which...