Anthropic‘s AI chatbot Claude experienced an outage on Wednesday, with users reporting difficulties accessing the service as reports of disruptions surged on social media.
Downdetector Records Spike in Reports
Downdetector, a website that tracks online service outages by collecting user-submitted reports, showed a sharp spike in user reports, indicating widespread issues affecting Claude users. The outage appeared to impact multiple versions of Anthropic’s latest Claude models.
Anthropic did not immediately respond to Benzinga’s request for an update.
In an update posted on its status page, Anthropic said it had identified the cause of the issue and was working to restore service.
“We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5 and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible,” the company said.
In an update, the company added, “We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.”
Anthropic did not provide an estimated timeline for resolving the issue or disclose what caused the elevated error rates.
Claude Fails To Respond
We tried asking Claude if it was down to check the status, and received an error message: “This response didn’t load.”
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