Anthropic restores Claude service after outage affecting thousands

Tech company Anthropic restored service to its artificial intelligence chatbot Claude after a nearly three-hour outage Monday that affected thousands, the company said in a statement.

“Claude is back up and running across claude.ai and our apps. We’re grateful to our users as the team works to match the incredible demand we’ve seen for Claude in recent days,” Anthropic said in a statement to The Hill late Monday morning.

According to a website monitoring the status of Claude from Anthropic, multiple Claude products faced partial outages for up to two hours and 45 minutes. Shortly after 6:30 a.m. EST, 2,133 people had reported problems with Claude to the website Downdetector, which tracks reported issues with different technology services.

Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon was labeling Anthropic as a supply chain risk. Hegseth’s comments followed President Trump ordering federal agencies to stop using technology from Anthropic.

“Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic,” Hegseth said in a post on social platform X.

Earlier in the week, the Pentagon warned of using the Defense Production Act (DPA) against the tech company during tension over Anthropic’s limits on its AI tools. On Tuesday, the Pentagon advised Anthropic that it could invoke the DPA to use the company’s tools as it wanted.