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Claude down: Anthropic’s chatbot outage impacting thousands of users on mobile and web

March 3, 2026

Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude has experienced significant outages impacting thousands of users on both mobile and web platforms. This disruption marks the second major outage within 24 hours, with users reporting issues related to the chatbot and its associated tools.

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Key Highlights

Claude AI chatbot faced outages affecting thousands of users on March 3, 2026.
The outage occurred shortly after another major disruption on March 2, with over 900 users reporting issues.
Technical difficulties were reported globally, with elevated errors noted for Claude Cowork and Claude Code tools.
Anthropic is actively investigating the cause of these outages.

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Claude down: Anthropic’s chatbot outage impacting thousands of users on mobile and web

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