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Claude Outage Hits Thousands of Users as Login Issues Disrupt Access
2 min read Anthropic experienced a widespread outage on Monday morning, with thousands of users reporting issues accessing Claude. The disruption affected both Claude.ai and Claude Code, primarily causing login errors. However, the company confirmed that the Claude API was functioning normally, meaning backend integrations were largely unaffected. March 02, 2026 14:17
Anthropic had a rough Monday.
Thousands of users couldn’t log into Claude. Claude.ai? Down for many. Claude Code? Also hit.
The only thing that stayed alive? The API.
Which is interesting.
Because this wasn’t just a “site glitch.” It exposed something deeper: AI tools are now daily infrastructure. When Claude goes down, developers stall. Writers pause. Startups freeze mid-workflow.
And here’s the quiet part nobody says loudly enough — reliability is becoming a competitive edge.
Model quality used to win.
Now uptime matters just as much.
In a world where teams are literally built on AI assistants, outages don’t feel like bugs anymore. They feel like risk.
Hot take: The AI race is shifting from “who’s smartest” to “who never goes offline.”
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