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Spotify and Claude recover after brief outage in US

By Thomson Reuters Sep 29, 2026 | 9:33 AM

Sept 29 (Reuters) – Spotify 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)