Recent outages on September 29 and October 1 have highlighted Anthropic's recurring infrastructure strains with Claude.ai, the API, Code, and Cowork services, including elevated errors and credit balance delays that each lasted roughly two hours. These incidents, amid rising large language model demand, underpin the tight contest between 5-7 and 8-10 downtime days, as traders weigh Anthropic's rapid scaling against its AI safety focus that can slow fixes. Current operational status offers little relief, while historical patterns of intermittent model-specific spikes suggest further events could push totals higher if usage surges or new features launch.