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Anthropic Shut Down Its AI-written Blog After Just Weeks.
- Written by Kiara Fabbri Former Tech News Writer
- Fact-Checked by Sarah Frazier Former Content Manager
AI startup Anthropic has quietly shut down its new blog, Claude Explains, just weeks after launching it.
In a rush? Here are the quick facts:
- The blog mixed Claude’s writing with human edits on technical topics.
- Transparency issues sparked criticism on Reddit and social media.
- Anthropic offered no public explanation for the sudden shutdown.
The blog featured content generated by the chatbot ‘‘Claude,’’ while human editors refined it. TechCrunch reports that the purpose of this collaboration was to showcase how AI and human experts can work together. The blog now it’s completely offline and its webpage exists only as a redirect to Anthropic’s homepage.
According to TechCrunch, the blog was a “pilot” aimed at merging user-requested explainer content with marketing initiatives at the company. The blog presented articles about code simplification, and business AI applications. However, it failed to establish a clear distinction between Claude’s automated content and human editorial work.
TechCrunch reports that a company spokesperson had previously described the blog as “a demonstration of how human expertise and AI capabilities can work together,” adding, “Rather than replacing human expertise, we’re showing how AI can amplify what subject matter experts can accomplish.”
Futurism reports that the blog sparked mixed reactions online. Some users praised the idea, while others criticized it for lacking transparency. “Blogs typically aren’t written in the third person,” one Reddit user pointed out. Another said, “If it needs a human to tell it what to write, it’s not writing its own blog.”
Despite drawing over 24 backlinks from other websites, its ambiguous authorship, combined with its unclear purpose, created skepticism among readers. Critics doubted that the blog was a marketing tool masquerading as innovative content, as noted by Futurism.
The company, Anthropic, has not provided any explanation regarding the blog’s closure. It might have shut down the blog out of concern about making false promises regarding Claude’s writing capabilities.
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ChatGPT Faces Widespread Outage Impacting Thousands Of Users
- Written by Kiara Fabbri Former Tech News Writer
- Fact-Checked by Sarah Frazier Former Content Manager
ChatGPT faced a major outage on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, affecting many users worldwide.
In a rush? Here are the quick facts:
- ChatGPT experienced a major outage on June 10, 2025.
- Nearly 2,000 outage reports appeared on Downdetector.
- Users received error messages like “Too many concurrent requests.”
The website Downdetector recorded 2,000 reports of internet service problems during this time. Users encountered both “Too many concurrent requests” errors, as well as cases where the chatbot failed to respond.
OpenAI’s status page showed “elevated error rates” lasting for over seven hours. Early Tuesday morning, the company said, “Some users are experiencing elevated error rates and latency across the listed services. We are continuing to investigate this issue.”
We are observing elevated error rates and latency across ChatGPT and the API. Our engineers have identified the root cause and are working as fast as possible to fix the issue. For updates see our status page: https://t.co/oUGSSyltRU — OpenAI (@OpenAI) June 10, 2025
OpenAI provided an update about finding the source of the problem while they worked on implementing a fix. The company stated that the complete recovery process for all listed services would need additional time of three hours.
A couple of hours later, OpenAI announced it had found the root cause and was “working on implementing a mitigation.” However, it warned, “Full recovery across all listed services may take another few hours.”
The Independent reports that users took to social media to post pictures of their chatbot sessions that displayed both “Hmmm… something seems to have gone wrong” and “network error” messages prompting them to check their connection status.
