On June 23, 2026, Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude experienced a widespread outage, affecting its chatbot, app, and Claude Code services globally. According to Downdetector, complaints surged sharply on June 23, with the platform recording 6,740 reports at its peak, up significantly from a normal baseline of 11 reports. The outage graph indicated a sudden spike in complaints, pointing to a possible service-wide issue rather than isolated connectivity problems.