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Ask HN: Claude, OpenAI, Janitor, and Character.AI down in the last 2 hours?

3 points by HaZeust ↗ HN
Was wondering if anyone noticed a specifically-high outage rate for AI-based services this afternoon and evening.

There was also Meta Services down as well (Instagram [1], WhatsApp [2], Facebook Core [3]). Could be anything external?

1 - https://x.com/instagram 2 - https://downdetector.com/status/whatsapp/ 3 - https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/

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winstonp
OpenAI has been down, but Claude and Meta services are working fine for me
HaZeust
Used sources for Meta services with past outages today, Claude was based on my personal experience of getting an error about ANY message I sent causing "unexpected capacity issues", as well as an increase in baseline reports on downdetector and "Downforeveryoneorjustme", but doesn't seem to be nearly as big.
jscottbee
Claude has been getting "unexpected capacity issues" for a few weeks, but that's not down. I have been using it for the past few hours with no issues.
gnabgib
You've already commented on one of the stories about this, so you know people on HN know. What are you looking for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42394760

HaZeust
Glad you shared that I'm active on a topic I bothered to make a post about - who would have thunk it?

Besides that, wondering what's going on - and found it interesting there was no discussion about multiple major AI-based services having issues?