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Welcome to March!
March is one of my favorite months: birthdays, anniversaries, spring—everything starts feeling lively again after the cold and gloom of winter.
I started drafting this edition a day before the Claude vs White House debacle. So I planned to kick us off with another hot take, a potentially new diagnosis, a new tool overview, and a new product I’ve been quietly working on.
But I’m not going to gatekeep something so urgent.
Since this is the first week of the month, this is a free edition to all subscribers! Today’s edition specifically provides you with tools to migrate away from OpenAI, should you want and choose to do so.
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Hot Take & AI Headline of the Week
Say goodbye to ChatGPT
Last week, Anthropic made headlines for drawing a firm line in its work with the US Government by refusing to permit its AI to be used for domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons systems. The government's response was to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk to national security (Feb. 27, 2026).
To put that in context: supply chain risk designations have historically been reserved for foreign adversaries. Applying one to a domestic company for declining to enable mass surveillance or autonomous lethal systems is, to put it plainly, an extraordinary escalation, and one that is likely to be contested in court for years to come.
The vacuum didn't stay empty for long. With Anthropic sidelined from key government contracts, OpenAI stepped in to fulfill the remaining requirements. Make of that what you will. The craziest thing about this is that OpenAI’s contract includes those exact stipulations that Anthropic was defending. So is this just a political move? Because disintegrating AI systems and reintegrating new ones can take a year or more. So what is this really about?
What happened next may have been predictable: Anthropic saw a significant surge in new users. When a company puts its ethics on the line publicly, people notice—and in this case, many chose to vote with their accounts.
Back in a recent survey here, a number of you asked about migrating away from ChatGPT. This week, I've got two step-by-step guides to help you do exactly that: one for Gemini, and one for Claude.
My initial take was very strongly worded and biased, so this rewrite is brought to you by Claude.