Anthropic experienced an outage affecting its Claude.AI, Claude Code, and Claude Opus 4.6 services that began just before 7 a.m. ET on Monday. The disruption lasted more than two hours, with Downdetector reporting a spike of nearly 2,000 reports around 6:45 a.m. ET, later dropping to 275 by 9:30 a.m. ET. Anthropic announced at 11 a.m. ET that all services were back online and thanked users for their patience amid high demand. Read more →

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has declined a request from the U.S. Department of Defense to remove safety guardrails from the company’s Claude AI models. Amodei argues that frontier AI systems are not yet reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons and that removing ethical constraints would jeopardize both safety and civil liberties. While affirming the strategic importance of AI for national defense, he stresses that current models cannot replace the critical judgment of trained troops. The refusal puts a $200 million Pentagon contract at risk. Read more →