{"id":508474,"date":"2026-03-02T01:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508474\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:15:15","slug":"the-top-free-u-s-app-store-app-gets-to-number-one-thanks-to-president-trumps-insults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508474\/","title":{"rendered":"The top free U.S. App Store app gets to number one thanks to President Trump’s insults"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quick, name the app that just became the number one free app in the U.S. App Store. No cheating. Here’s a hint. It’s an AI app that has recently made the headlines thanks to an ongoing dispute with President Donald Trump. The app is Claude, an AI chatbot developed by Anthropic. Last week, a feud between Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei and President Trump hit the headlines.<\/p>\n

The feud revolves around a rumored $200 million contract between the Pentagon and Anthropic. The government demanded that it have unrestricted use of Claude models. However,\u00a0Anthropic and Dario Amodei refused to allow the government to use Claude to monitor American citizens. The CEO and his company also did not want Claude to be embedded in any U.S. weapons system that can make a decision to “kill” without requiring human intervention.<\/p>\n

Trump attacks Claude, Anthropic and the latter’s CEO\u00a0Dario Amodei<\/p>\n

Trump responded by going on Truth Social and in a “truth” he wrote that Anthropic’s leaders were “Leftwing nut jobs” and he ordered that every federal agency “Immediately Cease” using the company’s technology. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Anthropic a “Supply-Chain Risk to National Security,” which is a designation usually given to foreign outfits like Huawei preventing the blacklisted company from dealing with military contractors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It is the Department\u2019s prerogative to select contractors most aligned with their vision. But given the substantial value that Anthropic\u2019s technology provides to our armed forces, we hope they reconsider.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0-Dario Amodei, CEO, Anthropic<\/p>\n


\nOpenAI, the company that developed the ChatGPT chatbot, announced a deal with the Pentagon replacing Anthropic and Claude. As we noted earlier in this article, Claude is now the top free app in the U.S. App Store ahead of second place ChatGPT. In third place among free apps after Claude and ChatGPT is Gemini AI<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Claude <\/p>\n

Claude is the top free app in the U.S. App Store. | Image by PhoneArena<\/p>\n

Claude climbed quickly to the top of the charts<\/p>\n

To show you how Claude has climbed sharply in the App Store charts, on January 30th Claude was number 131 before spending much of February in the 20s according to app tracker Sensor Tower. ChatGPT was in first for most of February.<\/p>\n

I’ve been impressed with Claude and found it to be faster than other chatbots while offering a little more in-depth responses. You can install it from the App Store by tapping on this link<\/a>. You can install it from the Google Play Store by pressing on this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read the latest from Alan Friedman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quick, name the app that just became the number one free app in the U.S. App Store. No…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49,48,190,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-508474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}