Claude outage: Anthropic confirms elevated errors across models
Anthropic's Claude AI assistant experienced a service outage characterized by '529 Overloaded' errors, affecting both the chatbot and API-dependent tools. The company has since confirmed that most models have recovered from the disruption.
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As businesses increasingly rely on AI APIs, service outages can cause significant operational downtime for third-party applications.
Claude is down. Anthropic has confirmed the outage affecting its Claude AI assistant, with users reporting failed requests and "529 Overloaded" errors across multiple AI models. The company said it has identified the issue and is working to restore services after elevated errors and latency disrupted Claude and applications that rely on its API. Anthropic confirms Claude service disruptionAnthropic first acknowledged the issue at 5:57 UTC on July 30, saying it was investigating elevated errors affecting many Claude models.In an update posted at 6:26 UTC, the company said: "All models except Opus 5 have recovered.
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