Claude AI down: Users report ‘authentication service unavailable’ error amid outage
Claude is facing a widespread outage, with users reporting authentication errors and difficulty accessing the AI chatbot.
Claude AI, the popular AI chatbot developed by Anthropic, is currently experiencing a widespread outage. Users across several regions in the United States are reporting "authentication service unavailable" errors when attempting to access the AI platform. The service disruption was first noted on Anthropic's status page and confirmed by the online outage-tracking platform Downdetector, which recorded over 15,000 error reports by 6:15 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday.
One user commented, "It's been down about 15 minutes now, keep getting an authenticator error," while another remarked, "All Claude is down, we are in the stone age now." Vaishnavi Vaidyanathan, a journalist covering US news for Hindustan Times, reports that the outage has caused significant disruption to Claude's services.
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