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Anthropics chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company's fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.

As first reported by CNBC, Claude has been rising to the top of the free app rankings in Apple's U.S. App Store. Well, on Saturday evening, it overtook opening eyes chat GPT to claim the number one spot, a position that it still held on Sunday morning. According to data from Censor Tower, Claude was just outside the

top 100 at the end of January and has spent most of February somewhere in the top 20. It's climbed

rapidly in the past few days from 6th on Wednesday to 4th on Thursday, then first on Saturday. A company

spokesperson said that daily sign-ups have broken the all-time

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