Overview
- Anthropic says more than one million people are now signing up for Claude each day, with new records set daily since early last week.
- App figures show Claude topping the U.S. App Store and leading daily downloads over ChatGPT in recent days, while Similarweb measured 11.3 million mobile daily active users for Claude on March 2.
- ChatGPT remains far larger overall by scale, with roughly 250 million mobile daily active users on March 2 and billions of monthly web visits.
- The Defense Department has designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk, and CEO Dario Amodei says the company will challenge the action in court.
- OpenAI reached a Pentagon agreement with stated guardrails against mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, as CEO Sam Altman called the rollout rushed and some users rallied a "QuitGPT" campaign.