Anthropic Claude AI service outage affects users worldwide

Anthropic's artificial intelligence assistant, Claude, experienced a widespread service disruption on Tuesday, June 2, leaving hundreds of users globally unable to access the chatbot and its related services. The outage affected the Claude.ai website, mobile application, API services, and developer tools, preventing users from generating responses, accessing conversations, or completing tasks.

The company first acknowledged the issue on its official status page at 0604 UTC, reporting it was investigating elevated errors. By 0639 UTC, Anthropic stated it had identified the root cause and was implementing a fix. A subsequent update at 0933 UTC indicated work on the resolution was continuing. Reports on the outage monitoring platform Downdetector surged sharply around midday, rising from a normal baseline to over 230 complaints in a short period, with the majority related to Claude Chat.

Users reported a range of problems, including error messages citing "unexpected capacity constraints," prompts failing to generate, and accounts being stuck in a loading state. On social media and community forums, professionals, including content creators and developers, expressed frustration over...