Claude AI down: Anthropic AI chatbot faces partial outage as users report access issues

Claude AI faced ‘partial outage’ today as per Anthropic’s status page. Thousands of users were unable to access Claude AI on June 2, 2026, after reports of service interruptions began spreading across the internet.

The disruption affected both regular users and developers, with many reporting failed requests, loading problems, and difficulties generating responses. As complaints mounted, Anthropic confirmed that several Claude services were experiencing elevated error rates and said its engineers were working on a fix.