Anthropic’s Claude reports widespread outage

Source: TechCrunch

Posted: 5:31 AM PST · March 2, 2026

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Anthropic experienced widespread disruptions on Monday morning, with thousands of users reporting problems accessing Claude services.

The outage appears to affect Claude.ai and Claude Code, though the company said the Claude API is working as intended. Most users encounter an error when attempting to log in, as shown in the screenshot below.

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“The issues we are seeing are related to Claude.ai and with the login/logout paths,” the company’s status page reads.

Anthropic has not yet detailed the cause of the outage, but it has identified an issue and is implementing a fix.

The disruption follows an influx of users to Claude, which benefited from attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon. The chatbot app rose to the top of the App Store charts this weekend, overtaking arch‑rival ChatGPT after a long period below the top 20.

U.S. President Donald Trump last week told federal agencies to stop using Anthropic products after a dispute over safeguards preventing the Department of Defense from using its AI models for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said he would designate the company as a supply‑chain threat, though Anthropic states it has not yet received any formal notices.