Anthropic's Claude AI Faces Partial Outage Affecting Multiple Regions on March 2, 2026

On March 2, 2026, Anthropic's AI assistant Claude experienced a partial outage affecting users across India, Europe, and Africa. Reports indicated HTTP 500 and 529 errors, login failures, timeouts, and slow responses on both the web interface and API. Anthropic acknowledged elevated errors at 11:49 UTC and is investigating the cause, with no estimated time for full service restoration. Users reported difficulties accessing chats and authentication issues, while the company’s engineering teams work to resolve the disruption.