Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude is experiencing a significant service disruption, leaving thousands of users locked out of the claude.ai platform and triggering a surge of reactions across developer and tech communities worldwide.
According to Anthropic’s official status page, an incident labeled “Elevated errors on claude.ai” was identified at 11:49 UTC (2:49 PM EAT).
The company confirmed it is actively investigating the issue. Early reports suggest the primary web interface is affected, while API access and services such as Claude Code remain operational.
