Claude Went Dark for an Hour: Inside Anthropic's Second Major Outage in Seven Days
Claude Went Dark for an Hour: Inside Anthropic's Second Major Outage in Seven Days On Tuesday morning, Claude stopped working. Not just the chatbot — the web app, the desktop and mobile apps, the coding tool, the developer API, all of it. For roughly an hour, one of the most widely used AI systems in the world was effectively unreachable, and Anthropic's own status page read like a real-time incident log. The trouble began at 10:21 a.m. Eastern, when Anthropic started investigating what it described as "elevated error rates" across claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and the Claude API. About ninety minutes later, the company said everything was back to normal. In between came failed requests, broken logins, unsaved conversations, and a warning to users that read, simply: if you're signed in, please don't sign out. It was the second significant Claude outage in seven days — and, according to incident trackers, the 13th entry on Anthropic's status p...