Claude’s Friday Outage Hit Chat, Code and the API | AI Glitchez Weekly

On Friday morning, Claude users saw errors across chat, Claude Code and the API. We follow Anthropic’s incident timeline from the first report to recovery, then look at what happened when people put this week’s AI releases to work. Diode built a circuit board that Claude designed. Peter Yang tested whether Claude would push back on a tired tester. Paul J Lipsky put Gemini 4 Hydrogen through three early-access tests, and Simon Willison asked Gemini to rebuild a city he knows. We also visit a robotics demo and look at the AI video that reached a community in Ontario. Which of these would you actually use? Tell us in the comments. 0:00 Friday's Claude outage 1:11 The circuit board and Peter Yang's test 2:20 Claire Vo's test and the board's fine print 2:58 Just in: Gemini 4 Hydrogen 3:54 Would you pay more for the better build? 6:40 What can it do that others couldn't? 9:47 Can Carbon rebuild a place you know? 12:34 How does one drawing talk? 14:30 Who's driving the robot? 15:27 What survives an image edit? 18:00 Can a convincing video fool you? 20:00 What can an editor actually change? 21:32 Recap 21:57 Sources and credits Friday’s outage report from Anthropic https://status.claude.com/incidents/34wq7gxnxvvm Music AI Glitchez original score, created with ElevenLabs Music. Tracks in this episode are “Beneath the Motion,” “The Unseen Pattern,” “A Wider Horizon,” “Silicon Glitches” and “Optimized Efficiency.” The transition riser was synthesized in-house. Tests, footage and reporting Diode, Peter Yang, Claire Vo (How I AI), Paul J Lipsky, Simon Willison, Felix Rieseberg, Jim Liu, The Humanoid Hub, NVIDIA Research and CTV News’ Colton Wiens, among others. Individual demos and tests are credited on screen. Full source credits begin at 21:57.