Claude Is Down Worldwide: Anthropic Confirms the Outage

Anthropic has confirmed an outage affecting its Claude chatbot, hitting users around the world. According to Bleeping Computer, requests to several of the AI models were failing, and the disruptions affected both Claude itself and third-party tools that work through its API.

What happened

During the outage, requests to the service returned a “529 Overloaded” message. This error usually means that Claude's servers can't keep up with the current volume of requests. The full text of the notice read: “API Error: 529 Overloaded. This is a server-side issue, usually temporary — try again in a moment.”

Timeline

Anthropic began investigating the incident on July 29 at 19:49 UTC. By 20:33 UTC the company reported that the cause had been identified and that work on a fix was underway. However, neither the root cause itself nor an estimated time to recovery was disclosed.

Large-scale outages like this have not been uncommon lately for major AI services: ChatGPT from OpenAI has previously faced worldwide unavailability as well. For tools that have built Claude into their workflows via the API, disruptions like these mean that dependence on a single provider turns into downtime at the worst possible moment.

Source: Bleeping Computer