Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly accuses OpenAI's Sam Altman of spreading 'straight up lies' about their Pentagon AI deal, calling it 'safety theater,' as public backlash explodes with ChatGPT uninstalls surging 295% while Anthropic climbs to #2 in the App Store.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang signals a major shift in private AI investment strategy, confirming the company's $30 billion stake in OpenAI — part of a massive $110 billion funding round — will likely be its last before OpenAI's anticipated IPO later this year, with a separate $10 billion Anthropic investment …
Alibaba's Qwen AI team faces sudden instability as key technical leader Junyang Lin departs just one day after the Qwen 3.5 Small Model launch, with colleagues hinting the exit was involuntary and a second team member also signaling their departure.
Anthropic is surging toward a $20 billion revenue run rate while simultaneously facing a dramatic clash with the Pentagon, which has declared the AI company a supply-chain risk after it sought restrictions on military use of its technology for surveillance and autonomous weapons.
ChatGPT uninstalls surge 295% and 1-star reviews spike 775% after OpenAI announces a Pentagon deal, while rival Claude hits No. 1 on the U.S. App Store with downloads jumping up to 88% day-over-day after Anthropic declines the same DoD contract over AI surveillance and weapons concerns.
Anthropic pitched the Pentagon on a $100M drone swarm challenge while simultaneously negotiating red lines on military AI use, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth now orders the Pentagon to bar contractors from doing business with the company.
Anthropic's Claude.ai and Claude Code are down for thousands of users Monday morning due to login issues, as a fix is underway — the outage striking at a particularly turbulent moment with Claude topping App Store charts above ChatGPT amid Pentagon contract controversy and Trump ordering federal agencies to halt …
Anthropic faces an existential crisis as a collapsed Pentagon deal over autonomous weapons disputes triggers a federal ban on its technology, puts $60 billion in venture capital at risk, and sees rival OpenAI swoop in to sign the rejected agreement.
AI coding assistant Cursor surpasses $2 billion in annualized revenue as of February 2026, doubling its run rate in just three months, with corporate clients driving 60% of revenue at a $29.3 billion valuation.
Anthropic's Claude AI is suffering a massive global outage affecting thousands of users across all platforms since 11:30 UTC, with timeouts, failed requests, and inconsistent responses hitting multiple models — and despite repeated fixes, the crisis remains unresolved.