Just days after President Trump slammed Anthropic for disputes over wartime use of its AI, a major Claude outage has stretched on for hours.

Anthropic is making it easier to switch to its Claude AI from other chatbots with an update that brings Claude’s memory feature to users on the free plan, along with a new prompt and dedicated tool for importing data from other chatbots.

Anthropic has seen a surge in usage of its services as it feuds with the US Defense Department over the potential use of its technology for mass surveillance and the development of autonomous

Anthropic has made switching to its Claude AI chatbot easier than ever. The company announced a new memory import tool that can extract all of a competing AI chatbot's memories and context of you into a text prompt that can be fed into Claude.

Claude is reportedly down today, raising questions about whether the outage is connected to the ongoing “Quit ChatGPT” campaign. As users increasingly protest OpenAI’s controversial Pentagon partnership,

The company objected to hypothetical future use cases, not anything the military is currently doing. The updated feature makes importing preferences and context from other LLMs easier as Claude climbs the app charts. At the outbreak of a new war, Altman is closer than ever to the Pentagon.

The app surged to the top free app on Apple's App Store after Anthropic clashed with the Department of Defense over limits for the technology.

Anthropic’s Claude experienced a major outage, leading thousands of users to take to social media with memes and humorous reactions.