{"slug": "is-claude-down-users-of-ai-chatbot-report-major-outage", "title": "Is Claude down? Users of AI chatbot report major outage", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "# Is Claude down? Users of AI chatbot report major outage\n\n[Claude](/topic/claude), the AI chatbot developed by[Anthropic](/topic/anthropic), has experienced an[outage](/topic/outage)affecting 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.\n- Claude's official status page reports a partial outage.\n- 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.”\n*More to follow.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/is-claude-down-users-of-ai-chatbot-report-major-outage", "canonical_source": "https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/is-claude-down-anthropic-downdetector-b2998178.html", "published_at": "2026-06-18 08:29:42+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-18 09:01:36.197479+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Claude", "Anthropic", "Downdetector"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/is-claude-down-users-of-ai-chatbot-report-major-outage", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/is-claude-down-users-of-ai-chatbot-report-major-outage.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/is-claude-down-users-of-ai-chatbot-report-major-outage.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/is-claude-down-users-of-ai-chatbot-report-major-outage.jsonld"}}