Claude suffered a 'major outage.' Anthropic says it's fixed.
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Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Claude and Claude Code weren't working for many users on Tuesday morning. Anthropic listed a "major outage" on its dashboard before applying a fix. Both Claude and ChatGPT have frequently experienced outages as interest in AI chatbots continues to grow. AI-generated summary Summaries are generated by an AI model trained on Business Insider's articles. AI may make mistakes or provide inaccurate/incomplete information. We're unable to load that answer right now. Please try again. What causes AI chatbot outages? What is Anthropic's response plan? How does Claude compare to ChatGPT? How do outages affect user trust? Why is AI interest surging now? Claude is still struggling to keep up with vibe coders. Loading audio narration... Anthropic's popular Claude AI chatbot and Claude Code tool weren't working for many users on Tuesday morning.Claude's system status page listed a "major outage" for the Claude website and Claude Code. Thousands of users reported issues accessing Claude on the third-party outage-tracker DownDetector. Claude Cowork and the Claude API were both listed as operational.Roughly 90 minutes later, Anthropic said it had "applied a fix." "We have applied a fix and success rates have returned to normal," the company said in its status dashboard. "We are continuing to monitor closely to ensure there are no further issues."This is far from the first time Claude has experienced an outage. Thousands of users reported issues accessing the service on Monday, and Anthropic's status dashboard shows various issues in recent weeks. Anthropic's recent incident reports for Claude Anthropic There's been a surge in interest in Claude, with downloads of the Claude app briefly surpassing ChatGPT in early March on Apple's App Store.Anthropic didn't immediately respond to a request for additional comment on the incident. This is a developing story.