{
  "id": 10721602,
  "title": "Spotify, Anthropic's Claude down for some US users, Downdetector shows",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/spotify-anthropics-claude-down-for-some-us-users-downdetector-shows-10721602",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-29T14:33:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CNA - Business",
    "slug": "cna-business",
    "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/spotify-claude-down-us-downdetector-6418981"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Spotify and Anthropic's Claude services experienced outages affecting thousands of US users on Tuesday, according to Downdetector.com. As of 10:12am ET, over 17,000 US users reported issues with Spotify, while more than 11,000 users reported problems with Claude. Spotify acknowledged the reported issues and was investigating, while Anthropic stated it was examining elevated error rates across Claude services. Both companies have not yet commented on the matter. Downdetector's figures are based on user-submitted reports, and the actual number of affected users may differ. In Singapore, Spotify problems started at 9:41pm and peaked at 10:26pm with 453 reports, while Claude issues began at 9:44pm and peaked at 10:14pm with 368 reports.",
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 6,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "TechRadar",
        "title": "Claude is down for many — here's everything we know as Anthropic confirms an active issue",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/claude-is-down-for-many-heres-everything-we-know-as-anthropic",
        "published": "2026-09-29T14:32:33.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Spotify, Anthropic's Claude down for some users in US, Singapore: Downdetector",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/spotify-anthropics-claude-down-for-some-users-in-us-singapore",
        "published": "2026-09-29T14:33:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Economic Times Tech",
        "title": "Spotify, Anthropic's Claude down for some US users, Downdetector shows",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/spotify-anthropics-claude-down-for-some-us-users-downdetector-shows-10716104",
        "published": "2026-09-29T14:58:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Android Authority",
        "title": "Is Claude down for you? Anthropic shares what’s going wrong",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/is-claude-down-for-you-anthropic-shares-whats-going-wrong",
        "published": "2026-09-29T15:08:24.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Interviews with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah and 20 religious and philosophical leaders about their summits to investigate consciousness in Claude (Elizabeth Dias/New York Times)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/interviews-with-anthropic-co-founder-christopher-olah-and-20",
        "published": "2026-09-29T19:20:01.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}