The Oracle Has Fallen
Anthropic’s Claude, the AI chatbot whose entire brand is “we’re the careful ones,” went down this morning. The people most inconvenienced were the ones who build systems that are never supposed to go down. They all ran to a website called DownDetector like it was the Oracle at Delphi. Nobody finds this funny. I find this very funny.
The official status page lists a “major outage” for the Claude website and Claude Code. Claude Cowork and the Claude API were listed as operational. Anthropic’s official statement: “We have identified an issue resulting in elevated errors on Claude.ai, including desktop and mobile. Users may experience errors when attempting to login, engaging with voice mode, or completing chats with Claude. We are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible.”