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ChatGPT saw a surge in uninstalls after OpenAI’s Pentagon deal, while rival Claude climbed to #1 on the App Store.

Also, Sam Altman says despite having the same “red lines” as Anthropic, OpenAI has no control over how the government ultimately uses its AI models.

Plus, Anthropic’s CEO says the company was frozen out after refusing political donations and “dictator-style praise” for Trump.

Oh yeah, and Meta is facing a lawsuit over Ray-Ban smart glasses after contractors in Kenya reportedly reviewed “private” user footage.

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📰 AI NEWS RECAP

ChatGPT Uninstalls SURGE By 295%

ChatGPT’s U.S. mobile app saw a 295% spike in uninstalls the day after its Department of War deal was announced, while new downloads fell and one-star reviews surged. Many users publicly cited the Pentagon partnership as their reason for quitting, while rival Claude climbed to #1 on the App Store.

How to transfer your ChatGPT “Memory” to Claude:

• Go to ChatGPT

• Go to “Settings”

• Go to “Data controls”

• Go to “Export data”

• Click “Export”

• Click “Confirm”

• Wait (wait time depends on how much ChatGPT “memory” you have)

• Check your email

• Click on the link and download

• Go to Claude

• Go to “Settings

• Go to “Generate memory from chat history”

• Enable the button

• Go to “Capabilities”

• Go to “Import memory from other AI Providers”

• Click “Start import”

• Select the ChatGPT file you downloaded from your email

• And you’re done!

Sam Altman has been on the defensive about OpenAI’s Pentagon agreement, saying the company added guardrails against domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. Critics argue he effectively “caved” where Anthropic held its red lines, accepting classified work and trying to frame it as a necessary patriotic duty that’s still compatible with safety principles.

A leaked memo shows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei accusing Donald Trump of favoring AI leaders who shower him with “dictator-style praise” and political donations. He says Anthropic is being punished and blacklisted because it refused to donate, refused surveillance and killer-drone uses, and pushed for real AI regulation instead of what he calls “safety theater.”

Despite the Pentagon clash, Anthropic has raced to roughly a 19–20 billion dollar annual revenue run rate, more than doubling from about 9 billion at the end of 2025. The company, now valued around 380 billion dollars, is seeing a wave of users and enterprises pick Claude as the more “principled” alternative after OpenAI’s classified-network deal.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told investors that its recent stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic will “likely be its last” in those labs, saying the strategic goal of deepening the ecosystem has been met. The comments raised eyebrows because Nvidia is making far more from selling chips to AI customers than it could from extra equity, so pulling back sounds more like hedging exposure than losing interest.

Oracle and OpenAI quietly scrapped plans to add a huge 600‑megawatt expansion to their joint “Stargate” data center campus in Abilene, Texas, after negotiations over financing and OpenAI’s changing needs dragged on. The extra capacity will be shifted to other sites still in the works, and a broader multi‑gigawatt build-out between the two companies is continuing elsewhere.

Meta is facing a class‑action lawsuit over its Ray‑Ban smart glasses after reports that contractors in Kenya had to review “intimate” clips including nudity, sex, credit card numbers, and identifiable faces. Plaintiffs say Meta’s privacy marketing was misleading and that undisclosed human review turned a supposed personal gadget into a quiet surveillance tool that exposed them to serious dignity and safety risks.

🤿 AI DEEP DIVE

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