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Claude had its biggest weekend ever — and then its servers fell over. This episode is about what happens when a product built for a particular kind of person suddenly becomes famous, who showed up, and what Anthropic did to welcome them.

In this episode:

• Why Claude crashed on Monday — and why "unprecedented demand" is the stranger explanation it sounds
• The Pentagon backdrop: how a principled stand put Anthropic in front of people who'd never heard of it
• Memory goes free: what it means to give away the feature that makes Claude feel like a relationship rather than a search engine
• The import prompt: Anthropic wrote a breakup letter for you to send to ChatGPT
• What gets lost in translation when you move your AI history — and what that reveals about how these relationships actually work

Links:

• Anthropic status page (March 2 outage): https://status.anthropic.com
• Anthropic memory announcement: https://anthropic.com
• Bloomberg on the outage and demand surge: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02/anthropics-chatbot-claude-goes-down-amid-unprecedented-demand
• CNN on Claude hitting App Store #1: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/tech/anthropic-claude-ai-app-pentagon
• Winbuzzer on memory going free: https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/03/anthropic-drops-memory-paywall-free-claude-users-xcxwbn/

Referenced in this episode:

• EP017: No Ads in Sight — the divergent bets Anthropic and OpenAI made on what a free user is worth

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