Anthropic’s Claude sees ‘elevated errors’ as it tops Apple’s free apps

Anthropic’s Claude AI models showed “high errors” on Monday, and the app remained the most popular free app. Appleon the App Store.

Claude’s status website Its latest model, the Claude Opus, released last month, showed “poor performance” in 4.6.

In an update made at 10:49 ET, the site stated that the Opus 4.6 issue had been detected and a fix was being worked on.

In an update on the site at 10:47 a.m. ET, Claude.ai said the issues in the console and Claude code had been resolved.

“Claude stands up and runs across the street. Claude.ai and our practices. “As a team, we are grateful to our users who are trying to keep up with the incredible demand we’ve seen for Claude in recent days,” Anthropic said in a note to CNBC just before 11 a.m. ET.

The AI ​​chat app’s popularity soared after a dispute with the Department of Defense over restrictions on the government agency’s use of Anthropic technology.

Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with the Pentagon in July. Tensions arose after Anthropic asked the government to ensure its AI models were not used for fully autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance of Americans.

The Pentagon pushed back, demanding that the military be allowed to use the platform for any legal purpose.

On Friday, President Donald Trump ordered all US government agencies to “immediately stop” using Anthropic’s technology. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth soon called the Pentagon’s company “Supply chain risk to national security“

AI rival OpenAI reached a deal with the Department of Defense, hours after the government severed Anthropic ties.