Microsoft blocks the word 'Microslop' in Copilot Discord, and the server melts down

Trouble began when users discovered that Discord messages containing the word "Microslop," a mocking nickname for the company's AI-heavy direction, were automatically blocked. Those attempting to ...

Is Claude AI Down? Anthropic Comments on Worldwide Outage

Anthropic said its Claude AI system was experiencing errors early on Monday as users reported outages worldwide. There were "elevated errors" reported on Claude.ai, Console, and Claude Code. "A fix ...

Claude was down. Here's what Anthropic told us.

At 6:49 a.m. ET on Monday, Anthropic posted on its Claude status page that it was investigating "elevated errors" occurring with the Claude chatbot, Claude Opus 4.6 (its latest generation large ...
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Microsoft Effort to Ban 'Microslop' on Copilot Discord Didn't Go As Planned

After people just used workarounds like typing out 'm1cr0sl0p,' admins seemingly dropped the ban. But that only accelerated the posting.