Claude AI Just Crashed Worldwide and 2,000 People Lost Their Minds in 10 Minutes
Anthropic's wildly popular chatbot went completely dark today, leaving millions of users staring at error screens. The company blamed 'unprecedented demand' but nobody's buying it.
If you tried to use Claude today and got nothing but error messages, you weren't alone. Anthropic's AI chatbot went down hard on Monday morning, and within minutes, thousands of users were flooding social media wondering what happened.
The outage started around 11:30 UTC (that's early morning in the US) and hit everything: the website, the mobile apps, and even the developer API that tons of businesses rely on. According to DownDetector, roughly 2,000 people reported problems almost instantly, and hundreds kept reporting issues throughout the day.
Anthropic's official explanation? They've been dealing with 'unprecedented demand' over the past week. Translation: so many people are using Claude right now that their servers basically gave up.
The company tried fixing things multiple times throughout the day. They'd say 'we implemented a fix,' start monitoring, and then the same problems would pop right back up. Even their newest model, Opus 4.6, was still having issues hours later.
This is a big deal because Claude isn't just a chatbot people use for fun anymore. Businesses, developers, and entire workflows depend on it. When it goes down, real work stops.
As reported by BleepingComputer.
Source: BleepingComputer
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