[Claude Experiences Major Service Outage, Thousands of Users Affected Globally] BlockBeats News, March 2 – According to monitoring website Downdetector, Claude, the widely popular AI chatbot under Anthropic, experienced a service outage on Monday, with thousands of users reporting related issues. The specific cause of the outage remains unclear. In its initial status update, Anthropic stated that some services were experiencing an 'elevated error rate' and announced that an investigation into the issue began at 11:49 AM London time. According to the company's status page, the outage affected users of the Claude chatbot as well as Anthropic's programming service, Claude Code.