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Claude dethrones ChatGPT as top U.S. app after Pentagon saga

138 points by doener 8mo ago

derwiki 8mo ago
Looks like ChatGPT wrote this article though
- whackernews 8mo ago
  Yeh I couldn’t tell if they were being ironic. I don’t know Axios. Stopped reading anyway.
mpalmer 8mo ago
> Reality check: ChatGPT is still right behind Claude on the app store charts and has a first-mover advantage on AI. "This is less newsworthy than you think". Real sizzling copy, Axios. And exactly what good is a first-mover advantage when you squander it?
- nerdsniper 8mo ago
  Also very strong LLM-ism. Particularly for ChatGPT.
- rustyhancock 8mo ago
  It seems like the news is also coming out that Claude was used in planning the Venezuela and Iran operations[0]. Whatever you thoughts on legality or justification, both have been staggering effective in initial goals. Interms of intel and complex operation planning. Despite Trump ragging on Anthropic just hours before it was still considered necessary for the operation. Quite telling. I don't think Pentagon will be satisfied with just Grok and ChatGPT. Which means OpenAI might really be done for in terms of having no moat beyond least ethics (Grok does that anyways). [0] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/u-s-strikes-in-middle-east-use-anthropic-hours-after-trump-ban-ozNO0iClZpfpL7K7ElJ2 https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/u-s-...
  - toyg 8mo ago
    OpenAI will likely end up swallowed by Microsoft anyway.
aetherspawn 8mo ago
If all of the AI providers just went bankrupt it would be a fairly solid 1 step back, 2 steps forward for humanity. We weren’t ready for it. And degrading world conditions and crazy leadership make it scary to be a civilian in a world with highly capable AI. One that will soon contain AI-powered terrestrial robots akin to something out of Terminator (<2 years). Besides, without AI we’d probably invest in net positive short term objectives that redistribute wealth, like clean tech. (Extremely unpopular opinion because at least half or more of HN are probably working in AI)
- Avicebron 8mo ago
  Working in "AI" was much more fun before the current hype cycle... It's definitely turned into another Eternal September of everyone and their brother pretending they've worked in AI for all of human history. I would welcome another long winter
- mark_l_watson 8mo ago
  I upvoted you, and mostly agree with you, but: as much as I love using strong small local models sometimes a commercial 'frontier' model is very useful (for me). I deleted my free OpenAI account (I paid for it until a year ago) and just started a $20/month Anthropic account. My one-year prepaid Gemini account will expire in two months and I will decide then to keep one of Anthropic or Gemini. Once again: I agree that super-spending on super scaler data centers is a net negative for humanity. For me it is not a matter of price: I am happy paying $20/month and only using energy guzzling models occasionally when I really need them. Sort of like recycling to lesson our burden on the environment: try to minimize AI energy and resource use, but still get work done. EDIT: we can also use LLMs more efficiently: build software composed of small well tested libraries. It is more energy efficient to write and debug little 200 line libraries than soaking up large projects in your context. Also, working on small composable libraries works better with smaller open models like qwen3.5:35b.
  - weird-eye-issue 8mo ago
    > we can also use LLMs more efficiently: build software composed of small well tested libraries. It is more energy efficient to write and debug little 200 line libraries than soaking up large projects in your context. So, NPM? In reality AI is making this LESS likely to happen. It's easier to write a small utility function with AI then find and use a library these days
ChrisArchitect 8mo ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202032
antonajp 8mo ago
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138 points by doener 8mo ago

derwiki 8mo ago

Looks like ChatGPT wrote this article though

whackernews 8mo ago
Yeh I couldn’t tell if they were being ironic. I don’t know Axios. Stopped reading anyway.

mpalmer 8mo ago

> Reality check: ChatGPT is still right behind Claude on the app store charts and has a first-mover advantage on AI. "This is less newsworthy than you think". Real sizzling copy, Axios. And exactly what good is a first-mover advantage when you squander it?

nerdsniper 8mo ago
Also very strong LLM-ism. Particularly for ChatGPT.
rustyhancock 8mo ago
It seems like the news is also coming out that Claude was used in planning the Venezuela and Iran operations[0]. Whatever you thoughts on legality or justification, both have been staggering effective in initial goals. Interms of intel and complex operation planning. Despite Trump ragging on Anthropic just hours before it was still considered necessary for the operation. Quite telling. I don't think Pentagon will be satisfied with just Grok and ChatGPT. Which means OpenAI might really be done for in terms of having no moat beyond least ethics (Grok does that anyways). [0] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/u-s-strikes-in-middle-east-use-anthropic-hours-after-trump-ban-ozNO0iClZpfpL7K7ElJ2 https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/u-s-...
- toyg 8mo ago
  OpenAI will likely end up swallowed by Microsoft anyway.

aetherspawn 8mo ago

If all of the AI providers just went bankrupt it would be a fairly solid 1 step back, 2 steps forward for humanity. We weren’t ready for it. And degrading world conditions and crazy leadership make it scary to be a civilian in a world with highly capable AI. One that will soon contain AI-powered terrestrial robots akin to something out of Terminator (<2 years). Besides, without AI we’d probably invest in net positive short term objectives that redistribute wealth, like clean tech. (Extremely unpopular opinion because at least half or more of HN are probably working in AI)

Avicebron 8mo ago
Working in "AI" was much more fun before the current hype cycle... It's definitely turned into another Eternal September of everyone and their brother pretending they've worked in AI for all of human history. I would welcome another long winter
mark_l_watson 8mo ago
I upvoted you, and mostly agree with you, but: as much as I love using strong small local models sometimes a commercial 'frontier' model is very useful (for me). I deleted my free OpenAI account (I paid for it until a year ago) and just started a $20/month Anthropic account. My one-year prepaid Gemini account will expire in two months and I will decide then to keep one of Anthropic or Gemini. Once again: I agree that super-spending on super scaler data centers is a net negative for humanity. For me it is not a matter of price: I am happy paying $20/month and only using energy guzzling models occasionally when I really need them. Sort of like recycling to lesson our burden on the environment: try to minimize AI energy and resource use, but still get work done. EDIT: we can also use LLMs more efficiently: build software composed of small well tested libraries. It is more energy efficient to write and debug little 200 line libraries than soaking up large projects in your context. Also, working on small composable libraries works better with smaller open models like qwen3.5:35b.
- weird-eye-issue 8mo ago
  > we can also use LLMs more efficiently: build software composed of small well tested libraries. It is more energy efficient to write and debug little 200 line libraries than soaking up large projects in your context. So, NPM? In reality AI is making this LESS likely to happen. It's easier to write a small utility function with AI then find and use a library these days

ChrisArchitect 8mo ago

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202032

antonajp 8mo ago

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