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Anthropic Launches Claude Marketplace — Amazon-Inspired Enterprise App Store Featuring Replit, GitLab, Harvey and More

Anthropic just made its boldest move yet beyond being an API company. On March 6, 2026, the company launched Claude Marketplace — an enterprise-grade app store that lets customers with existing Claude spend commitments apply those credits directly toward tools built by Replit, GitLab, Harvey, Snowflake, and a growing roster of partners. Bloomberg called it “Amazon-inspired.” That framing lands precisely. This is Anthropic building a platform ecosystem, not just selling model access. ...

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Claude Is Dethroning ChatGPT in App Stores as 1M+ Sign Up Daily Amid Pentagon Dispute

Something unusual is happening in the AI consumer market. Claude — Anthropic’s flagship AI assistant — has hit number one on the US App Store. More than a million people a day are creating accounts. And Anthropic’s annualized revenue has jumped from $14 billion to $19 billion in a matter of weeks. The catalyst is a controversy, but the story worth focusing on for practitioners isn’t the controversy itself — it’s what the growth surge means for the Claude API ecosystem, for OpenClaw deployments, and for the broader agentic infrastructure built on Anthropic’s models. ...

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Claude Overtakes ChatGPT as #1 Free App on US App Store

On March 1, 2026, Claude climbed to the #1 position on the US App Store Top Free chart, surpassing ChatGPT. The milestone has been confirmed across five major outlets — Axios, CNBC, Business Insider, Digital Trends, and TechFusionist — and the timing tells you everything you need to know about why it happened. The Pentagon Flashpoint The catalyst is OpenAI’s agreement to supply AI capabilities to the US Department of Defense — specifically, the deployment of AI for military targeting and weapons systems analysis. When the terms of that arrangement became public, a significant segment of users who had chosen AI tools partly on the basis of developer ethics found themselves reconsidering. ...

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Claude Surges to Top of App Store as ChatGPT Users Defect Over Anthropic's Pentagon Stand

Something remarkable happened on a Saturday afternoon in late February 2026: Anthropic’s Claude climbed to the top of Apple’s US App Store chart, knocking ChatGPT off the throne it had occupied for months. It wasn’t driven by a feature launch or a viral marketing campaign. It was driven by principle. The Rankings Tell the Story By Saturday, February 28, Claude had reached the No. 1 spot among top free U.S. apps, with ChatGPT falling to No. 2 and Google’s Gemini to No. 3. The rankings fluctuated throughout the day — TechCrunch and Gizmodo both reported Claude at No. 2 earlier — but CNBC confirmed the No. 1 position as the most authoritative and most recent snapshot. ...