🍭 Everybody Hates ChatGPT 😡

Good morning. Tyler from ops tried meditating this morning.
Lasted four minutes before asking Claude if monks monetize newsletters.

Let’s dive in 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• ChatGPT uninstall wave hits 295%

• Claude tops the App Store charts

• 500 march past London’s AI labs

• DeepSeek V4 lands this week

OpenAI x Anthropic
🫥 People Actually Deleted ChatGPT

The Bite:

On Saturday (28), U.S. users uninstalled ChatGPT at 295% above its normal daily rate.

That was a direct response to OpenAI announcing a deal with the Department of Defense (now officially Department of War).

The deal came hours after Anthropic publicly refused a similar contract, citing concerns over domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.

Claude hit #1 on the U.S. App Store the same day. It's still there.

Snacks:

• ChatGPT U.S. downloads fell 13% day-over-day on Saturday, then another 5% on Sunday

• 1-star reviews for ChatGPT surged 775% on Saturday

• Claude's daily U.S. downloads surpassed ChatGPT's for the first time ever

• Claude is now #1 free iPhone app in 7 countries including the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Switzerland

• Anthropic launched a free tool to help ChatGPT defectors import their conversation history

Why it Bites:

People don't switch AI tools.

The friction is too high, the habits too sticky, the "good enough" threshold too low.

That's been the conventional wisdom since ChatGPT ate the world.

This weekend broke it.

What happened wasn't really about features or pricing.

It was a values vote. Cast with uninstall buttons and 1-star reviews.

Anthropic drew a line, the government called it a supply chain risk, and OpenAI stepped in to fill the gap.

The market did not reward that move.

The interesting thing is what this signals for AI company positioning going forward.

"Safety" used to be a thing that made you slower, more expensive, and harder to work with.

This week it became a growth lever.

Anthropic's refusal converted into a 51% download spike and a #1 ranking in 7 countries.

That's not a fluke.

It's a new datapoint in the business case for having principles.

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Anti-AI
🪧 500 People Marched Past the AI Labs

The Bite:

On Saturday (28), roughly 500 protesters marched through London's King's Cross, where UK offices of OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta sit.

Organizers called the largest anti-AI protest in history.

The march was organized by Pause AI and Pull the Plug, two activist groups with different but complementary demands:

• A global pause on frontier AI training.

• Democratically governed Citizens' Assemblies to decide how AI gets used in the UK.

The event ended in a church hall in Bloomsbury where attendees drafted formal demands for the government.

Snacks:

• Three years ago, Pause AI's first protest drew 5 people outside a Microsoft lobbying office in Brussels

• 84% of British people believe the government will prioritize tech company interests over the public when regulating AI

• Protesters' concerns ranged from AI-generated abuse imagery and job displacement to autonomous weapons and human extinction

• Pause AI's global head told MIT Tech Review he wants to dry up the AI talent pipeline to slow the race

• The march's own co-organizer said she doesn't believe pressure on companies will ever work

Why it Bites:

The most honest moment at the protest came from inside it.

Maxime Fournes, Pause AI's global head, stood in the crowd he helped organize and said:

"I don't think that the pressure on companies will ever work.”
“They are optimized to just not care about this problem."

That's not a critic talking. That's the organizer.

And yet 500 people still showed up.

The gap between believing the march won't work and showing up anyway is actually the interesting thing here.

It's what a movement looks like before it finds its real lever.

The labor movement didn't win by standing outside factories.
It won by making it impossible to staff them.

Pause AI seems to know this. The talent pipeline play is smarter than a march.

If working in AI becomes socially costly.
If the best researchers start asking harder questions about where they work.

That's a pressure companies can't ignore with a PR statement.

500 people in King's Cross is a footnote.

What happens to the next generation of AI PhDs might not be.

_{Everything Else}
🧠 You Need to Know

💥 DeepSeek V4 Is Coming This Week
→ China's DeepSeek is dropping its first major model since R1. Multimodal (text, image, video), optimized for Huawei chips.

📱 Apple Launched iPad Air with M4 and Apple Intelligence
→ Pre-orders open today at $599; ships March 11, with 50% more unified memory and Apple Intelligence built in.

✊ 500 People Marched Through London's AI District
→ The "March Against the Machines" on Feb 28 stopped at OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta's UK offices, demanding a global pause on frontier AI training.

📉 ChatGPT Uninstalls Surged 295% After the Pentagon Deal
→ Claude hit #1 on the U.S. App Store the same day, surpassing ChatGPT in daily downloads for the first time ever.

📡 MWC Barcelona Opened Under "The IQ Era"
→ ~2,900 exhibitors, one theme: AI-native networks and on-device AI are now the default pitch in telecom hardware.