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Is Claude Down? Here's the Latest

CNET · Jun 16, 2026, 6:20 PM

Key takeaways

  • Anthropic's Claude AI service appeared to stop working on Tuesday.
  • Jon Reed See full bio Blake Stimac See full bio Jon Reed , Blake Stimac June 16, 2026 11:20 a.m.
  • Users reported a spike in errors to Downdetector, with more than 2,000 reports as of 1:27 p.m.

Anthropic's Claude AI service appeared to stop working on Tuesday. Here's what we know so far.

Jon Reed See full bio Blake Stimac See full bio Jon Reed , Blake Stimac June 16, 2026 11:20 a.m. PT Joseph Maldonado/CNET Anthropic's Claude AI appeared to experience an outage on Tuesday, according to online reports.

Users reported a spike in errors to Downdetector, with more than 2,000 reports as of 1:27 p.m. ET/10:27 a.m. PT. The number of reports dropped significantly pretty quickly as Anthropic implemented a fix. (Disclosure: Downdetector and CNET are owned by the same parent company, Ziff Davis.)

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