Anthropic reports widespread Claude outage following traffic surge and Pentagon dispute

by | Mar 3, 2026 | E-commerce News

Anthropic experienced widespread service disruptions affecting its Claude chatbot and coding platforms on Monday. The company is currently implementing a fix for the login failures that followed a massive influx of new users over the weekend. The traffic surge occurred after the Trump administration directed federal agencies to stop using the startup's artificial intelligence models over a military contract dispute.

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