Anthropic's Claude AI is experiencing widespread service disruptions this morning, with users reporting login failures and slow performance across both Claude.ai and Claude Code. The company has confirmed the outage is ongoing as it investigates the root cause of the problems affecting its popular AI chatbot platform.

Despite climbing over 40 spots in the App Store rankings this year, Claude's current downtime highlights the challenges of maintaining reliable AI services at scale. The outage comes at a critical time for Anthropic, which recently expanded Claude's capabilities with the Sonnet 4.6 model featuring improved coding skills and enhanced free tier features including app integration and document creation.

Users can track the ongoing outage through Anthropic's status page and subscribe for updates when service is restored. The disruption affects both free and paid users, potentially impacting developers who recently gained access to Claude Code integration with Xcode for agentic app development. This reliability issue could test user patience as competition in the AI assistant market intensifies.