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OpenAI Discounts Are Pulling Customers From Anthropic

  By Sidra Salman · October 26, 2026 OpenAI is not just competing with Anthropic on model quality anymore. According to a new report from The Information, published October 25, 2026, OpenAI is competing on price — and winning some of Anthropic's biggest customers in the process. The report, summarized by several outlets over the weekend, names three companies that have shifted meaningful AI spending from Anthropic to OpenAI after steep discounts: Replit, Rippling, and DataCamp. A fourth example, an unnamed U.S. bank with more than $7 billion in assets, reportedly doubled its ChatGPT seats to 500 employees at no extra charge, paying under $7 per user instead of the standard $20 or more. Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic has publicly confirmed the deals described in the report, and The Information's original article sits behind a paywall. What follows is what the reporting says, what is still unconfirmed, and why it matters even if you never buy an enterprise AI contract. What The...

Trump Blacklists Anthropic: Inside the Pentagon AI Clash That Shook Silicon Valley

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In one of the most consequential showdowns between Washington and Silicon Valley this year, President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to stop using AI systems from Anthropic — OpenAI's chief rival — after a bitter clash with the Pentagon over the conditions for deploying AI on classified networks. "We don't need them, we don't want them, and we will no longer deal with them," Trump wrote on Truth Social, accusing Anthropic of trying to pressure the Pentagon into accepting its conditions and of putting national security at risk. The move followed a six-month federal ban on the company's systems and came just hours before OpenAI announced its own deal to put AI tools on the Pentagon's classified networks. What Triggered the Clash Until this month, the Pentagon had relied on Anthropic's Claude model in its classified networks. Then Anthropic refused to grant full access to its systems without guarantees on two points: that the technology w...

Replit Ends Anthropic Partnership: CEO Picks ChatGPT Instead

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