Anthropic’s popular AI assistant, Claude is down again, second time in the past 24 hours. According to Downdetector. com, more than 4,000 users in the US have reported issues accessing the platform. Nearly 39% users flagged issues with Claude chat, while 36% reported issues with the app. Another 15% users flagged issues accessing the website. In India, around 500 reports have been registered so far. According to the company’s status page, “Elevated Errors” are reported in claude. ai, cowork, platform and claude code. The incident is marked as ‘unresolved’ so far.
Claude down: 2nd outage in 24 hours
As mentioned above, this is the AI platform’s second outage in less than 24 hours. Anthropic’s Claude as well as console and claude code showed elevated errors on March 2. The platform then showed two errors:
HTTP 500 Error: This is a general “Internal Server Error” which indicates that something has gone wrong on Anthropic’s servers, preventing them from fulfilling any requests.
HTTP 529 Error: The second error appears when the system is completely overloaded and cannot handle the current volume of requests hitting the system.
What is Anthropic Claude’s current status
At the time of writing, Anthropic Status Page reads:
Update – We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Mar 03, 2026 – 04:43 UTC
Update – We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Mar 03, 2026 – 04:41 UTC
Update – We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Mar 03, 2026 – 04:39 UTC
Investigating – We are currently investigating this issue.
Mar 03, 2026 – 03:15 UTC
