Anthropic’s Claude Suffers Widespread Outage, Exposing AI Reliance

Anthropic's AI chatbot, Claude, suffered a significant service disruption, causing thousands of users across regions like India, Europe, and Africa to be locked out, reporting HTTP 500 errors and failed logins on the claude.ai platform starting around 11:49 UTC. While some reports suggested ChatGPT and Gemini were also down, those services reportedly resumed operations quickly. Anthropic confirmed they were investigating the issue, noting that the primary web interface was affected, but API access remained operational. The outage prompted widespread reactions online, framing it as a productivity crisis and underscoring how deeply embedded AI assistants have become in daily workflows, serving as critical infrastructure rather than experimental tools.

(Source：BeInCrypto)