"Opportunistic and sloppy" - buyer's regret from CEO Sam Altman as OpenAI's deal with the Department of War comes under heavy fire?

OpenAI was wrong to rush into its deal with the US Department of War (DoW), admits CEO Sam Altman, and looked ‘opportunistic and sloppy” as a result.

It’s a startling mea culpa from Altman - “Good learning experience for me as we face higher-stakes decisions in the future” - and one triggered presumably by a combination of online opprobrium aimed at the company, an uptick in cancellations of ChatGPT, and the rise of Anthropic’s Claude app to the number one slot on the AppStore from being #131 a month earlier.

US app un-installs of ChatGPT’s mobile app jumped 295% on 24 hours on Saturday after the DoW deal was announced, up from an average nine percent over the previous 30 days, according to data from market intelligence provider Sensor Tower. Meanwhile US downloads of Claude were up 37% for the same 24 hour period.

As everyone is surely aware ...