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Spotify, Anthropic's Claude down for some US users, Downdetector shows

Spotify, Anthropic's Claude down for some US users, Downdetector shows

On Tuesday (Sep 29), Spotify and Anthropic's Claude experienced outages affecting thousands of US users, according to Downdetector.com. Over 17,000 US users reported problems with Spotify by 10:12am ET, while more than 11,000 users experienced issues with Claude, as reported by Downdetector. Spotify acknowledged the issue on X and stated they were investigating, while Anthropic said they were examining "elevated error rates" across Claude services.

Neither company provided immediate comment to Reuters. Downdetector's figures are based on user-submitted reports, and the actual number of affected users may differ.

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