Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude experienced a widespread outage on Monday, March 2, 2026. Over on Downdetector, users reported a spike in error rates yesterday morning. Many users complained about seeing HTTP 500 and 529 errors, login loops, slow responses, and complete denial of service when trying to interact with Claude’s web and mobile app. However, Anthropic restore the issue later yesterday.
Claude AI faces outage two days in a row
However, it seems the issue related to Claude is far from over. Earlier in the morning today, we spotted that Anthropic has confirmed yet another issue related to Claude AI on its status page. This time, Anthropic acknowledged elevated error rates on claude.ai, cowork, platform, and Claude Code.
In an update dated March 3, 2026, 04:43 UTC, Anthropic has confirmed that it’s investigating the issue. As of now, there is no resolution timeline confirmed by the company. On Downdetector, over 2,000 users have reported issues with claude.ai.
This is a developing story…
U.S. users applaud Anthropic’s ethical stance, OpenAI faces public scrutiny
As far as company news is concerned, Anthropic has recently been blacklisted by the Trump Administration, as it refused to hand over unrestricted access to its technology citing concerns like mass surveillance and autonomous weaponry. Users across the U.S. are praising the company for its ethical stand, which has resulted in Claude securing the top spot on the App StoreClaude status.
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Meanwhile, OpenAI, which recently signed a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense, has been under massive scrutiny from the public. Thousands of users around the globe are participating in the Cancel ChatGPT movement. Multiple news outlets have also reported that ChatGPT is seeing an elevated uninstallation rate across the United States.
