Anthropic, the developer behind the Claude series of AI models, is currently addressing a significant service disruption affecting multiple versions of its platform. The company’s status page reported elevated error rates across several services, including claude.ai, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. Notably, Claude Console and Claude for Government remain operational and unaffected by this issue.
Previous outages have been attributed to demand outpacing available compute capacity, driven by enterprise adoption of Claude Code and a surge in consumer signups. As of now, Anthropic has not provided a timeline for resolving the current outage.
Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Since Claude 3, each generation has typically been released in three sizes, from least to most capable: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. An additional model named Claude Mythos was released to a handful of companies in 2026 but not to the public.
Claude is used for software development via Claude Code. Claude is trained using “constitutional AI,” a technique developed by Anthropic to improve ethical and legal compliance (AI alignment). The name Claude has been described both as a tribute to Claude Shannon, who pioneered information theory, and as a friendly, male-gendered counterpart to virtual assistants like Alexa and Siri.
Given the growing reliance on AI models like Claude across various industries, this outage underscores the importance of robust infrastructure and scalability in AI services. Users and organizations dependent on these models should monitor Anthropic’s communications for updates and consider contingency plans to mitigate the impact of such disruptions in the future.
