Anthropic's Claude reports widespread outage
Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude experienced widespread service disruptions on Monday morning, with thousands of users reporting issues accessing the bot.
TL;DR
- Thousands of users reported issues accessing Anthropic's Claude services on Monday morning.
- The outage primarily affected Claude.ai and login/logout functions, while the Claude API remained functional.
- Anthropic has identified the cause and is implementing a fix.
- The disruption follows a surge in Claude's popularity, reaching the top of App Store charts.
- This popularity surge is linked to attention from negotiations with the Pentagon regarding AI safeguards.
- President Trump previously advised federal agencies to stop using Anthropic products due to disputes over safeguards.