Overview
- OpenAI added contract language stating its AI will not be intentionally used to surveil U.S. persons, citing the Fourth Amendment, the National Security Act and FISA, and clarified that deliberate tracking via commercially acquired personal data is prohibited.
- CEO Sam Altman said the rollout was rushed and disclosed that Defense Department intelligence agencies, including the NSA, cannot use OpenAI services without a separate contract modification.
- President Trump ordered federal agencies to phase out Anthropic after the Pentagon labeled it a supply‑chain risk, with State, Treasury and HHS moving to alternate vendors such as OpenAI under a six‑month timeline.
- Backlash to OpenAI’s Pentagon deal fueled a “QuitGPT” boycott as Sensor Tower reported a 295% spike in ChatGPT uninstalls, while Anthropic’s Claude rose to No. 1 on the U.S. App Store with downloads surging.
- Anthropic reaffirmed bans on mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, said it will legally challenge the supply‑chain designation, launched a memory import tool and made memory free for all users, and saw brief outages attributed to unprecedented demand.