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Anthropic confirms Claude is down, multiple models affected
Claude is experiencing an outage, with users encountering elevated errors when sending requests to multiple Anthropic AI models. The incident began on September 3, 2026, at around 9:41 AM ET, and is affecting several Claude models, including the company’s latest Mythos, Fable, and Opus models. According to Anthropic’s status page, the company initially said it was […]
Anthropic warns infostealer malware is hijacking Claude sessions to drain usage
Anthropic is warning some Claude users that infostealer malware on their PCs has stolen active Claude login sessions, allowing attackers to access accounts and consume their usage. The company is signing affected users out of Claude, removing saved payment methods, and refunding charges it identifies as unauthorized. “We have recently become aware of a bad […]
Anthropic is cutting Claude Code’s current weekly limits by 17%
Anthropic is permanently increasing Claude Code’s standard weekly usage limits by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans, but it’s not as good as it sounds. If you use Claude, you’re actually getting a 17% reduction compared to what you have today. Claude Code currently has a temporary 50% increase in weekly limits, which […]
Anthropic confirms Claude is down in major outage affecting multiple services
Claude is experiencing a major outage, with users reporting login problems and degraded performance across several Anthropic services. The incident began on August 16, 2026, at around 21:58 UTC, and is affecting Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. According to Anthropic’s status page, the company first said it was investigating an issue preventing some users from […]
How Anthropic plans to watermark Claude’s AI-generated text
It could soon become easier to identify AI-generated content, even if it’s not the usual “It’s Not X, it’s Y” type of post you’d come across on LinkedIn and other socials. As you may be aware, the EU now requires AI companies serving its market to mark their AI-generated content so it’s easier to identify. […]
AI ‘watermark removers’ flood the web. Almost none can prove they work.
A market for removing AI watermarks has sprung up days after Anthropic disclosed switching on invisible marks in everything Claude writes, spanning a GitHub project with over 4,500 stars, a cluster of newly registered web tools, and at least one established AI detection evasion service. None of the claims about defeating the text watermark can […]
Anthropic’s Claude breached 3 orgs, uploaded PyPI malware during tests
Anthropic said today that during internal security testing, one of its Claude models built a malicious Python package and uploaded it to PyPI, where it ran on 15 real systems before the registry’s automated defenses pulled it. The company disclosed it as one of three incidents where Claude models reached the open internet from evaluation […]
Anthropic confirms Claude is down worldwide
Claude is down for some users, with Anthropic confirming elevated errors across multiple AI models. The disruption is causing requests to fail with a “529 Overloaded” message, including in Claude and tools that rely on its API. Anthropic began investigating the outage at 7:49 p.m. UTC on July 29. At 8:33 p.m. UTC, the company said […]
Fake Claude app promoted by Bing ads pushes SectopRAT malware
A malvertising campaign on the Bing search service is pushing a fake Claude desktop app installer hosted on a legitimate Claude.ai domain to deliver the SectopRAT malware. At least 29 organizations were compromised between July 21-22 during the malicious operation, which researchers call FakeAgent. The attackers used a malicious Claude Artifact hosted on Claude’s legitimate […]
Claude Chrome extension flaw lets malicious extensions trigger AI actions
A flaw in Anthropic’s Claude for Chrome browser extension could allow a malicious extension to trigger predefined AI actions by simulating user clicks, potentially allowing it to abuse Claude’s access to connected services such as Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Salesforce. The issue was discovered by Ax Sharma of Manifold Security, who says it […]