Many users are switching to Claude following a string of controversies surrounding ChatGPT and its parent company, OpenAI. The tipping point came after Anthropic, the company behind Claude, refused to allow the Department of Defense to use its AI models for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. In response, President Trump ordered all federal … Read more
Anthropic experienced widespread disruptions on Monday morning, with thousands of users reporting problems accessing Claude services. The outage seems to be affecting Claude.ai as well as Claude Code, though the company said the Claude API is working as intended. Most users experience the error when attempting to log in, as in the screenshot below. Image … Read more
Claude users ran into a messy stretch of downtime on Wednesday as Anthropic’s AI chatbot showed signs of a partial outage across the app and public API. Quick Summary – TLDR: Thousands of users reported problems with Claude on Downdetector, with reports climbing as the day went on. Users flagged Claude chat issues, Claude Desktop … Read more
Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon. As first reported by CNBC, Claude has been rising to the top of the free app rankings in Apple’s US App Store. On Saturday evening, it overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT to claim the number one spot, a position … Read more
The United States defense forces employed artificial intelligence created by Anthropic during the airstrikes on Iran, mere hours after US President Donald Trump instructed federal agencies to cease collaboration with the technology firm, reported The Wall Street Journal. The US defense forces utilized Anthropic’s AI during airstrikes on Iran, despite President Trump’s directive to cease … Read more
President Donald Trump on Friday asked the Department of War and other federal agencies to ‘immediately’ stop using Anthropic’s technology after the AI startup rejected the Pentagon’s demand that it agree to unconditional military use of its Claude models. President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at Corpus Christi International Airport on February 27 (Getty … Read more
Anthropic is accusing three Chinese AI companies of setting up more than 24,000 fake accounts with its Claude AI model to improve their own models. The labs — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax — allegedly generated more than 16 million exchanges with Claude through those accounts using a technique called “distillation.” Anthropic said the labs … Read more