The day after Hegseth announced that the government was severing ties, it took the No. 1 spot, a position it still holds as of this writing. Downloads have topped 1 million a day, according to Anthropic’s chief product officer. A spokesperson told me that the company “has broken its own sign-up record every day since early last week, across every country where Claude is available.

Briefly hit No. 2 in Australia, behind—in a sign of the times—a petrol price finding app.

Makes for great theater, but either way, Silicon Valley knows you’re lonely, anxious and looking for a career change.