India, Feb. 26 -- Anthropic's AI chatbot, Claude AI, experienced a significant service disruption on Wednesday, leaving thousands of users unable to access the platform. Reports flooded social media and outage tracking sites as the chatbot suddenly stopped processing requests. While the company later confirmed that the technical issue was fully resolved, the brief downtime sparked a larger conversation about the tech industry's growing reliance on AI.

One prominent startup founder, Yuchen Jin, shared a viral reaction to the outage, suggesting that the productivity of Silicon Valley plummeted during those few hours. He noted that the disruption forced him into a moment of self-reflection, leading him to realise that he hadn't actually wri...