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Claude Hits No. 1 In the App Store as Users Flee ChatGPT

Anthropic's chatbot Claude just claimed the top spot in Apple's US App Store. A key reason why? Because the company told the Pentagon no. 

ChatGPT ➡️ Claude: After Anthropic refused to give the Defense Department unrestricted access to its AI, users started voting with their downloads. Daily sign-ups have broken records every day this week, free users are up more than 60% since January, and paid subscribers have more than doubled this year. Meanwhile, uninstalls of OpenAI’s ChatGPT surged 295%.

Where the standoff landed: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei held firm on two points: no mass surveillance of Americans, no fully autonomous weapons. The Pentagon wouldn't budge. President Trump directed federal agencies to stop using Anthropic products, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moved to designate the company a “supply chain risk”—a label normally reserved for foreign adversaries that would blacklist Anthropic from working with any company that does business with the military. Anthropic plans to challenge it in court.

But then … Hours after Trump attacked Anthropic, OpenAI announced its own Pentagon deal, which CEO Sam Altman claims includes similar safeguards. The timing definitely raised some eyebrows.

The industry responds: Hundreds of tech workers from Slack, IBM, Cursor, Salesforce—and OpenAI—signed an open letter urging the DOD to back off, calling its move with Anthropic “a dangerous precedent” that tells every tech company: accept whatever terms the government demands, or face retaliation.

Supreme Court Won't Hear AI-Generated Art Copyright Case

The US Supreme Court declined to hear a case over whether AI-generated art can be copyrighted—leaving in place a lower court ruling that says it can't. 

The backstory: Back in 2019, computer scientist Stephen Thaler sought copyright protection for an image created by an algorithm he built. The US Copyright Office rejected it, ruling the work lacked “human authorship.” Thaler appealed, but a federal judge in 2023 determined that “human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.” A federal appeals court upheld that ruling in 2025. Thaler asked the Supreme Court to step in last October. The Court declined without comment.

Why it matters: This isn't Thaler's first swing at this question. He also tried (and failed) to patent inventions created by AI systems, with courts ruling that only humans can be listed as inventors. The UK Supreme Court reached the same conclusion.

Apple Ships the Latest iPhone with Full-On AI

Apple just made its budget iPhone a whole lot smarter. The new iPhone 17e dropped this week at $599, and the big headline? It's running the same A19 chip as the standard iPhone 17, which means full Apple Intelligence support on the cheapest iPhone you can buy. 

Plus features like:

• 256 GB of base storage (double the last gen)

• MagSafe and Qi2 wireless charging

• Apple's new C1X modem, which is reportedly twice as fast while using 30% less power

• A camera that shoots 4K Dolby Vision at 60fps

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