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Claude AI Chatbot Suffers Major Outage
8 Apr
Summary
- AI chatbot Claude is currently inaccessible to many users globally.
- Over 400 outage reports were logged on Downdetector for Claude.
- Mobile app users are experiencing significant issues with the service.
Anthropic's popular AI chatbot, Claude, is currently down, preventing widespread user access. As of 2026-04-08T10:06:45+00:00, over 400 reports of issues have been registered on the outage monitoring platform Downdetector. Approximately 50 percent of these reports relate to problems with the core chat functionality, while 30 percent concern Claude Code. The disruption appears to disproportionately affect mobile users, with about 14 percent of outage reports coming from those using the Claude mobile app. The company has acknowledged the situation and stated that the ongoing issue is under active investigation. Users are advised to check the official Claude status page for further updates.
