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Is Claude Down? Here's the Latest

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Anthropic’s Claude AI appeared to experience an outage on Tuesday, according to online reports. Users reported a spike in errors to Downdetector, with more than 2,000 reports as of 1:27 p.m. ET/10:27 a.m. PT. The number of reports dropped significantly pretty quickly as Anthropic implemented a fix.
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Anthropic Pulls Claude Fable and Mythos AI Models After Feds Claim Jailbreak

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By Jon Reed Verified
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Anthropic pulled access to its newly released AI models Mythos 5 and Fable 5 over the weekend after the US government imposed sweeping restrictions on who could use them. The AI lab said in a statement that the federal government told it Friday afternoon that it had become aware of a way of “jailbreaking” Fable 5, bypassing limits that Anthropic had implemented to reduce the risk the model could be misused.
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Are Facebook and Instagram Down? What to Know

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By Jon Reed Verified
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Users are reporting problems with the Meta social media apps. June 12, 2026 8:00 a.m. PT Users of some of the most popular social media apps reported widespread issues Friday morning. The problems included Facebook, Instagram and Facebook Messenger, all of which are owned by Meta. Downdetector showed more than 80,000 reports of issues with Facebook around 10:15 a.m. ET Friday. Downdetector and CNET are both owned by the same parent company, Ziff Davis.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Copy editor at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Never seriously.

How is social media changing news?

It's making everything happen faster and more publicly. It's turning news into a real-time marketplace of ideas.