India, April 15 -- Anthropic's Claude was down for thousands of users on Wednesday. As per Downdetector, a platform that reports on online outages, nearly 8000 users across the US were experiencing issues with the AI assistant. Meanwhile, a brief Yahoo outage was also reported.

Thousands of users reported intermittent API Error 500 (Internal Server Error) across claude.ai, the web interface, Claude Code, and related services. Anthropic shared an update on its server status page.

"We are seeing increased errors on Claude.ai, API, and Claude Code," the first message read. It was followed with: "The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

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