Overview
- Thousands of users reported problems on Wednesday, with Downdetector counts peaking around 4,000–5,000 before easing to about 2,600.
- Anthropic acknowledged increased errors on its status page, labeled the incident a partial outage, and said it was investigating.
- Downdetector’s breakdown showed most issues in Claude chat at 48 percent, with 28 percent in the app and the remainder in Claude Code.
- Service access was inconsistent for some users, and a Tom’s Guide editor encountered a login loop that asked to confirm a public display name.
- Reports noted similar interruptions in recent days, and Times Now said the status site listed a 7:22 pm IST start time as Anthropic continued to post updates.