TL;DR: Anthropic refused to sign a contract with the Pentagon that would have allowed the U.S. military to use all of its models without restrictions. Anthropic insisted on an exception, and brace yourself, that its models cannot be used: 1) for mass surveillance of citizens, 2) for autonomous killing. Now the administration is threatening that if the founder of Anthropic doesn't change his mind by a certain date, they will come after him.
Google, OpenAI, and Musk (Grok) have all signed the contract.
Following Sam Altman's announcement over the past few hours, people have been speaking out massively about cancelling their OpenAI subscriptions and subscribing to Claude.
Used it for a quick writing task and it kept the tone consistent without me having to repeat myself, which honestly surprised me.
Used Claude to draft a tricky client email and it actually got the tone right on the first try, which surprised me.
Already a fan! The research that it can do and the precision of the facts is what I like.
the way claude handles long context without losing nuance genuinely impresses me