The company objected to hypothetical future use cases, not anything the military is currently doing. The updated feature makes importing preferences and context from other LLMs easier as Claude climbs the app charts. At the outbreak of a new war, Altman is closer than ever to the Pentagon.

According to Downdetector data, around 70% of complaints were related to Claude Chat, while 16% flagged issues with the mobile app and 14% with Claude Code. Several users also took to social media to report errors,

Altman’s announcement came not long after President Trump “ordered” every federal agency to immediately stop using Anthropic's technology.

The app surged to the top free app on Apple's App Store after Anthropic clashed with the Department of Defense over limits for the technology.

OpenAI secured a Pentagon deal, sparking backlash and shifting some users' loyalties to Anthropic's rival Claude chatbot.

Anthropic's Claude AI leads US app downloads, surpassing ChatGPT, following the Pentagon's blacklist due to refusal to ease safeguards for military use of its AI model.

Users are reportedly cancelling their subscriptions following OpenAI's deal with the Pentagon. Meanwhile, there has been a surge in users switching to Anthropic's Claude

The U.S. government's decision to grant a six-month transition period after blacklisting Anthropic suggests its Claude AI model was deeply embedded in Pentagon systems, according to investor Michael Burry.

The Pentagon previously requested Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI allow the use of their AI models for “all lawful purposes,” to which Anthropic put up the most resistance over fears its AI models could be used for autonomous weapons systems and mass domestic surveillance.