Claude Goes Dark as Anthropic Chases a $7B Acquisition and a Public Listing
A major Claude outage collided with reports that Anthropic is nearing a $7 billion deal for Israeli startup Decart — its largest known acquisition — as the company positions itself to go public.
Anthropic spent Saturday fighting a two-front battle: keeping Claude online, and preparing to spend more money than it ever has. The company's flagship assistant went down in what one widely circulated report described as a "major fault," per @GlobalFocus24. For a company whose entire pitch to enterprise buyers rests on being the reliable, safety-first frontier lab, an outage of this visibility is more than an inconvenience — it is a credibility problem at exactly the wrong moment.
The timing is what makes this a story rather than a footnote. According to @lexdavid42, Anthropic is nearing a roughly $7 billion deal to acquire the Israeli AI startup Decart — described as the company's largest known acquisition to date, and one explicitly framed as preparation for a public listing. A lab that is simultaneously going down and going shopping is telling you something about its priorities: scale first, stability later.
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