Claude AI Chatbot Faces Outage Amid U.S. Government Dispute
- Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot experienced an extended outage starting early Monday.
- Users reported connection issues with Claude shortly after 6 a.m. ET.
- The outage follows President Trump’s directive to cease U.S. government use of Claude due to disagreements with the Pentagon.
- The U.S. plans to transition to OpenAI’s GPT models within six months.
- Despite the dispute, Claude was used during recent U.S. strikes on Iran.
Anthropic is addressing connectivity issues with its Claude AI platform following a directive from President Trump for U.S agencies to discontinue its use over Pentagon disagreements on wartime applications.
The U.S government will replace Claude with OpenAI’s GPT models in six months, although it was recently used in military operations against Iran (Source).
