Claude encounters large-scale service disruption, affecting thousands of users worldwide.

According to the monitoring website Downdetector, Anthropic's popular artificial intelligence chatbot Claude experienced a service interruption on Monday, with thousands of users reporting related issues. The specific cause of the malfunction is currently unclear. In the initial status update, Anthropic stated that there was a "high error rate" in some services and they began investigating the issue at 11:49 am London time. According to the company's status page, this outage affected users using the Claude chatbot and Anthropic's programming service Claude Code.