Anthropic Claude Goes Down Worldwide — 'Unprecedented Demand' Cited
Claude went dark on Monday morning, and for once it wasn’t a minor hiccup. Starting around 11:49 UTC on March 2, 2026, Anthropic’s consumer-facing AI products — Claude.ai, Claude Code, and the mobile app — began reporting widespread failures. Users across North America, Europe, and Asia flooded social media with screenshots of error pages, spinning loaders, and authentication failures. Anthropic’s official response came quickly: the company cited “unprecedented demand over the past week” as the root cause of service degradation. The statement, confirmed by Bloomberg and CNET, framed this as a capacity problem rather than a security incident — but it raised more questions than it answered. ...