{"id":550207,"date":"2026-07-29T21:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/550207\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:52:17","slug":"claude-ai-suffers-widespread-outage-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/550207\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude AI Suffers Widespread Outage on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/anthropics-claude-what-you-need-to-know-about-this-ai-tool\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/anthropics-claude-what-you-need-to-know-about-this-ai-tool\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropic\u2019s Claude<\/a> is your preferred AI assistant, you\u2019ll need to try another chatbot. Claude is experiencing major errors on Wednesday afternoon, with thousands of people <a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/claude-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reporting to DownDetector<\/a> that they were unable to access the AI tool. <a href=\"https:\/\/status.claude.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Claude\u2019s status page<\/a> showed a red-bordered message announcing \u201celevated errors across all models\u201d and noted that the company is investigating the issue.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>CNET\u2019s attempts to access Claude returned the error message: \u201cDue to unexpected capacity constraints, Claude is unable to respond to your message. Please try again soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DownDetector, which tracks service outages on various websites, showed nearly 4,000 users reporting problems with Claude.<\/p>\n<p>The Claude status page showed that the site also experienced errors on Monday involving Claude Opus 5 and Haiku 4.5, though those errors were resolved that day, with Tuesday showing no errors. Claude Opus 5 is a powerful flagship model of the AI, and Haiku 4.5 is a faster, more lightweight model.<\/p>\n<p>CNET named Claude the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/best-ai-chatbots\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/best-ai-chatbots\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">best AI chatbot<\/a> after reviewing all the major AI tools, praising its consistency and noting that it is often considered to be more work-focused than general-purpose. Developer Anthropic is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2021 by former employees of OpenAI, the company behind popular chatbot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/what-is-chatgpt-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ai-chatbot\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/what-is-chatgpt-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ai-chatbot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ChatGPT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt=\"Gael Cooper\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/85948f9b-7918-477c-840f-eb31523e2b20.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-64 photo\" height=\"64\" width=\"64\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of &#8220;Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s,&#8221; as well as &#8220;The Totally Sweet &#8217;90s.&#8221; She&#8217;s been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She&#8217;s Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she&#8217;ll be first in line.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/profiles\/gcooper\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" class=\"articleAuthorBioFooter_link\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSee full bio\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Anthropic\u2019s Claude is your preferred AI assistant, you\u2019ll need to try another chatbot. 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