Claude, the AI chatbot developed by Anthropic, reportedly experienced a significant outage in the US on Wednesday, with over 4,500 users flagging issues on Downdetector.
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Popular AI chatbot Claude appears to be experiencing a temporary outage in the US on Wednesday, leaving users unable to use its major services. According to Downdetector, an outage tracking platform, over 4,500 users reported issues, with the tally later increased to 6,132. The disruption reportedly affected several American cities, including Dallas, Houston, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, among others.
Code, App, And Chat Services Impacted During Claude Outage
The Downdetector report suggests that several services of Anthropic’s AI platform were disrupted during the outage. Nearly 44% of affected users have reported issues with the Claude chat, while 27% faced problems with the Code, and around 21% witnessed an outage with the App.
How Anthropic Responded To The Claude Outage
Anthropic confirmed on its official status page that its AI chatbot faced some issues for a brief period of time. These issues stemmed from the elevated errors during user authentication, the tech giant revealed. It added that the outage occurred between 23:59 and 00:30 UTC, impacting several users across Claude services, including its developer tools and the chat.
Later, the company stated that it had resolved the issues with Claude. In an updated post at 01:38 UTC, the American tech giant confirmed on its service page that normal services have resumed and its systems are functioning normally. Moreover, they are under close monitoring to further stop any service failure.
Several users took to X to express their frustration about the Claude outage. “If Claude can automate everything without human engineer with AI, why is Claude down?” said an X user by the name of Console.log(me).