Incidents

Incidents I worked on that made the press.

2026

Sep 03
OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXAI Report Outages Disrupting AI Model Services Bloomberg, also WIRED, The Verge, Axios, The Register, MacRumors, Forbes
Aug 05
Is Claude down on Wednesday? Here are latest updates on Anthropic AI USA Today, also Android Authority
Jul 29
Claude AI Recovering After Widespread Outage on Wednesday CNET, also BleepingComputer, Newsweek
Jul 06
Claude Outage Currently Affecting Multiple Models MacRumors
Jun 23
Claude is down, or at least it was. The Verge
Jun 16
Is Claude Down? Here's the Latest CNET
Jun 05
Claude Is Currently Down Lifehacker
Apr 15
Anthropic products are operational after brief outage, status page says CNBC, also Newsweek
Mar 31
Anthropic leaks part of Claude Code's internal source code CNBC, also Fortune, The Register, BleepingComputer, VentureBeat
Mar 02
Anthropic's Claude Chatbot Goes Down For Thousands of Users Bloomberg, also CNBC, TechCrunch, Forbes, The Register, CNET, BleepingComputer, Newsweek
Feb 17
Is Claude Down? Outage Reports Briefly Spike On Downdetector Forbes
Feb 03
Claude Code was down, forcing developers to take a long coffee break The Verge

2025

Nov 18
Cloudflare apologises for outage which took down X and ChatGPT BBC, also Bloomberg, The Guardian, CNBC, The Times of India
Sep 10
Anthropic reports outages, Claude and Console impacted TechCrunch
Jun 12
Google suffers cloud outage, causing disruptions for OpenAI, Shopify and other services CNBC, also Reuters, TechCrunch, BleepingComputer, Data Center Dynamics, Computing

2024

May 20
Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers The Register, also TechRadar

2023

Apr 26
Google Cloud suffers outage in Europe amid water leak, fire The Register, also Data Center Dynamics, The Register follow-up

2022

Jul 19
Heatwave forced Google and Oracle to shut down computers BBC, also Reuters, The Register, The Register follow-up, BleepingComputer

2020

Dec 14
Google outage: YouTube, Docs and Gmail knocked offline BBC, also The Guardian, Axios, TechCrunch, BleepingComputer