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Is Claude down? Users of AI chatbot report major outage

Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude suffered a major outage on Thursday, with Downdetector recording over 2,000 user complaints. The company identified the cause and is working on a fix.

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Claude, the AI chatbot developed byAnthropic, has experienced anoutageaffecting thousands of users on Thursday.- Downdetector recorded over 2,000 complaints, with users reporting that the chat feature was not working and servers appeared to be down.

  • Claude's official status page reports a partial outage.
  • Anthropic said at 8.41am GMT: “We have identified the cause of the issue affecting Claude.ai and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.” More to follow.
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