{"id":334019,"date":"2026-03-17T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334019\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:46:10","slug":"anthropic-ai-users-hit-by-errors-as-chatbot-not-working-properly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334019\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic AI users hit by \u2018errors\u2019 as chatbot not working properly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/00f6b92cb4269afaa0571d3e8266f2ae.jpeg\" alt=\"The Claude AI app is seen in the app store on a phone on 16 February, 2026 in New York City (Getty)\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> The Claude AI app is seen in the app store on a phone on 16 February, 2026 in New York City (Getty)      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/claude\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Claude;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Claude&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Claude<\/a> has stopped working properly, with users being hit by errors as they try to talk to the chatbot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The system is seeing \u201celevated errors\u201d, according to a status page operated by its creators, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/anthropic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Anthropic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Anthropic&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Anthropic<\/a>. The outage began in the morning UK time, and the company said that it had identified the issue and is working on a fix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">It gave no indication of the cause of the problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Tracking website Down Detector confirmed that a number of users had been hit by the problems, right around the world \u2013\u00a0but that it was not a full outage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">It said that the problem appeared only to be affecting free users. Anthropic offers a free tier for Claude, in which they can ask a very limited number of questions, before they must pay a monthly fee for more access.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Both the Opus and Sonnet systems that power Claude\u2019s responses were affected by the problems, according to the same status page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Claude AI app is seen in the app store on a phone on 16 February, 2026 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,6166,363,364,7705,179093,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-334019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-claude","13":"tag-down-detector","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}