By Andrew Nusca
Publication Date: 2026-01-15 11:27:00
Today’s news below. —Andrew Nusca
P.S. My apologies to Anthropic’s Ami Vora, who I mistitled in yesterday’s edition. She’s Head of Product.
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Verizon hit with a major U.S. outage
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Verizon customers were forced to endure a substantial service outage on Wednesday that disrupted cellular activity across the U.S.
The issue affected wireless voice and data services, the telecom company said. It didn’t specify what caused the disruptions, but said at 10:20 p.m. Eastern that it had been resolved.
Reports suggest more than 100,000 customers were without service for 10 or more hours, beginning around noon ET and peaking shortly after.
A number of major metros were affected, including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Houston.
“Today, we let many of our customers down and…