Spotify and Claude recover after brief outage in US (updated)

Spotify Technology

29/09/2026 15:45

Adds details on Spotify and Claude's recovery, updates numbers from Downdetector
Sept 29 (Reuters) - Spotify SPOT.N and Anthropic's Claude recovered after brief outages in the US on Tuesday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com.
The Spotify outage began around 9:30 a.m. ET, with user-reported issues peaking at more than 19,000 before falling to about 1,000.
Reports of problems with Claude topped 10,000 around 10:25 a.m. ET before dropping to fewer than 100.
An Anthropic spokesperson said issues affecting Claude services, including Claude AI and Claude Code, had been mitigated.
Spotify said in a post on X that it was aware of "some issues" and was investigating.
Downdetector tracks outages by aggregating status reports from multiple sources, including users. Actual user impact may vary.

 (Reporting by Prathik Jayaprakash in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva and Shailesh Kuber)
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