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Claude AI Outage Disrupts Thousands Amid Pentagon Controversy

3/2/2026

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On March 2, 2026, Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude faced service disruptions, impacting thousands of users, according to Downdetector.
Anthropic said it detected elevated errors and began investigating at 11:49 AM London time.
The Claude API functioned correctly.
Reports peaked at 215 around 7:45 PM in Singapore.
The outage occurred amid a rising user base during a public relations conflict with the Pentagon over military use of Anthropic's AI tools.

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On March 2, 2026, Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude faced service disruptions, impacting thousands of users, according to Downdetector.
Anthropic said it detected elevated errors and began investigating at 11:49 AM London time.
The Claude API functioned correctly.
Reports peaked at 215 around 7:45 PM in Singapore.
The outage occurred amid a rising user base during a public relations conflict with the Pentagon over military use of Anthropic's AI tools.