Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude was knocked offline on June 22, leaving users around the world unable to reach the service for roughly an hour and a half.
According to CyberSecurityNews, Claude came back online after a 90-minute global outage. The disruption was not limited to one area: Moneycontrol reported that thousands of users across multiple regions ran into problems accessing the service during the incident, citing data from an outage-tracking platform.
For people who have folded Claude into daily routines — drafting emails, writing or debugging code, summarizing documents, or answering everyday questions — even a short blackout can be disruptive. With access cut off, Moneycontrol noted that affected users were left looking at alternative tools to get their work done in the meantime.
The sources here describe the scope and timing of the outage but do not spell out a confirmed root cause, and the reporting indicates service was restored after about 90 minutes.
Why it matters: as millions of people and businesses lean on a handful of AI chatbots for real work, brief outages like this one are a reminder of how dependent users have become on services they don't control — and how quickly that dependence is felt when the tools go dark.