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6 posts about Infrastructure from Simon Carter.
A major multi-model outage on 5 August 2026 took down Claude Mythos 5, Fable 5, Opus 5, and Sonnet 5 for 7.5 hours: the 164th disruption of 2026.
Two Claude outages in 14 hours on June 22–23 pushed 90-day uptime below enterprise SLA thresholds, with 8,000+ Downdetector reports at peak.
Anthropic ships three Claude Managed Agents platform updates giving enterprise developers more infrastructure control, runtime flexibility, and prompt-cache transparency.
Google restricted Meta's Gemini API usage due to compute constraints, forcing staff to ration AI tokens and highlighting the supply crunch hitting enterprise AI.
OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeño, a purpose-built LLM inference ASIC designed in nine months, targeting production deployment by end of 2026.
Anthropic closes a record $65B Series H at a $965B valuation, overtaking OpenAI as the world's most valuable private AI company.