India, April 8 -- Claude AI is experiencing widespread outages Wednesday, with users reporting failures in chat responses, Claude Code, and login issues across the platform. Thousands took to social media and Downdetector to complain that Anthropic's AI assistant was unresponsive or throwing errors.

According to Downdetector, reports of issues began around 1:45 p.m. EDT on Wednesday. By 2 p.m., nearly 2,500 outage reports had been logged, with most users flagging problems related to chat, code functionality, and the app.

Several users shared error messages indicating server-side failures, including repeated "API Error: 500 - Internal server error" notifications while using Claude Code.

Others speculated that the issue may be tied to sp...