Anthropic, the artificial intelligence research firm, experienced a service outage impacting its Claude AI, Console interface, and developer APIs earlier this afternoon. The disruption commenced around 12:20 PM ET, prompting user reports across online platforms and a subsequent acknowledgment from the company.
Users on GitHub and Hacker News began noting issues with access to Claude and related services at approximately 12:20 PM ET. Eight minutes later, Anthropic updated its official status page, confirming that its APIs, Console, and Claude AI were experiencing downtime. A spokesperson for Anthropic later stated to TechCrunch that the incident constituted a "very brief outage" occurring "shortly before 9:30am PT," emphasizing that "service was quickly restored."
By press time, Anthropic's status update indicated that multiple fixes had been implemented and the company was actively monitoring the results to ensure full operational stability. The incident marks another entry in Anthropic's recent service history; the company's status page records prior errors and bugs on its platform over the past few months, specifically impacting Claude and its underlying models.
The temporary interruption led to immediate reactions among users on various online forums. On GitHub, one user humorously remarked on the software engineering community being left to "twiddle its thumbs" due to the system's unavailability. Similarly, a Hacker News user quoted a past sentiment, stating, "\"Nooooo I'm going to have to use my brain again and write 100% of my code like a caveman from December 2024,\"" reflecting the reliance some users have developed on AI assistance.
