Anthropic Claude Outage: AI Chatbot Goes Offline Following Trump, Pentagon Blowup

Anthropic’s popular Claude AI chatbot platform suffered a prolonged outage early Monday. The company confirms the issues and says it is working on a fix.

Users began reporting widespread problems connecting to Claude shortly after 6 a.m. ET Down detectorof Claude’s status page showing an acknowledgment of the problems shortly afterwards. According to the latest update, Anthropic wrote: “The issue has been identified and a fix is ​​being implemented.”

“Claude is currently unavailable on our consumer-facing platforms such as claude.ai and our apps,” a spokesperson said Declutter. “The Claude API that powers businesses remains unaffected. Our team is working to restore full service and we will share updates as we get them. We appreciate everyone’s patience as we work to bring everything back online, while experiencing unprecedented demand for Claude over the past week.”

The extended downtime comes just days after President Trump ordered US government agencies to stop using the AI ​​platform following disagreements between Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the model could be used for war action.

“The United States of America will never allow a radical left, woke corporation to dictate how our great military fights and wins wars!” Trump wrote this in Truth Social on Friday. “That decision belongs to your commander in chief and to the great leaders I appoint to lead our military.”

The US government will have six months to phase out the software and use OpenAI’s GPT models instead, following an agreement announced later Friday. Despite the explosion, Anthropic’s Claude was used early Saturday during US attacks on Iran Wall Street Journal reported.

Anthropic said demand for Claude has surged since the public scuffle, with daily signups breaking records and free users up 60% since January.

Editor’s note: This story is current and will be updated with more details.