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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Technology
Vinay Patel

Is Claude Down? Worldwide Outage Sparks Panic as 500 Internal Server Errors Strike

Anthropic’s official status page confirmed 'elevated errors' across the Opus and Sonnet models, primarily locking out free-tier users worldwide. (Credit: X/@signulll)

When thousands of users suddenly find themselves staring at a blank screen and a cryptic '500 Internal Server Error,' the digital world takes notice. What began as a quiet Wednesday morning quickly spiralled into a global scramble as people everywhere asked one frantic question: 'Is Claude down?'

From disrupted coding projects to halted chat sessions, the sudden instability of Anthropic's most popular models has exposed just how much we've come to rely on our AI assistants.

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