Anthropic's Claude AI Suffers Major Global Outage Affecting Thousands of Users Across All Platforms
Summary
Anthropic's Claude AI is suffering a massive global outage affecting thousands of users across all platforms since 11:30 UTC, with timeouts, failed requests, and inconsistent responses hitting multiple models — and despite repeated fixes, the crisis remains unresolved.
Key Points
- Anthropic's Claude AI is experiencing a major worldwide outage, with elevated errors reported across all platforms including the web app, mobile apps, and API since 11:30 UTC on March 2, 2026.
- Approximately 2,000 users reported issues at the peak of the outage, with failures manifesting as timeouts, failed requests, and inconsistent responses, affecting multiple Claude models including Haiku 4.5 and Opus 4.6.
- Anthropic has implemented multiple fixes throughout the day, but the issue continues to resurface, with the latest monitoring update at 18:54 UTC still showing ongoing problems with Opus 4.6.