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Micky Irons
Micky Irons

Posted on • Originally published at mickai.co.uk

The Off-Switch You Do Not Own

On 2 June 2026 Claude went dark worldwide, the API, the Console, and Claude Code, and every business built on it went dark at the same moment. The outage was fixed in hours. The dependency it exposed is permanent. The Mickai SIOS runs the intelligence offline, on hardware the operator owns, with no provider to fail and no subscription for context or usage.

On 2 June 2026 Claude went down worldwide, taking the API, the Console, and Claude Code with it, and every business built on the model went down too. Centralised cloud intelligence carries an off-switch the operator does not hold, and the Mickai SIOS removes it by running the intelligence offline, sealed, on hardware you own.


Originally published on mickai.co.uk. This is a cross-post; the canonical version, with the full body, footnotes and references, lives on the mickai.co.uk article page.

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