Microsoft has drawn public backlash for banning one word in its forums.

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 ...

Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude experienced widespread service disruptions on Monday morning, with thousands of users reporting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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