Claude AI from Anthropic entered state of global outage on Monday, with users complaining of not being able to engage with it from around the world. The company confirmed the ongoing outage and said that the appropriate fix is being deployed to resolve the situation.
Timeline of Claude outage
Anthropic, on its official status page, disclosed that the log-in and log out paths for Claude AI had started to see impact of issue, restricting users to interact smoothly with the generative AI chatbot that was initially launched in March 2023.
“We have discovered that some API methods are not working and we are investigating,” Anthropic posted on its status page without getting into the details of the identified issue as of press time.
Source: status.claude.com
As per DownDetector, the Claude outage began around 9:00 AM (UTC) with over a thousand user complaints having surfaced on the issue.
Source: Down Detector
Several Claude users claimed that the chatbot suffers similar crashes way too frequently, urging Anthropic for a more permanent fix.
Timing of Claude’s outage
Interestingly, this outage for Anthropic’s LLM comes just days after it cancelled a potential $200 million deal with the U.S. Department of War, citing demand of unrestricted access to its AI technology from the Pentagon.
U.S. President Donald Trump has blacklisted Anthropic from federal partnerships.
“We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Friday.
Source: Truth Social/ @realDonaldTrump
The U.S. Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth reacted strongly to Anthropic’s stance calling it arrogance.
“Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered,” Hegseth said.
Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and xAI’s Grok meanwhile, are operational opposed to Claude.