https://www.perplexity.ai/page/claude-ai-hit-by-worldwide-out-zQYPbIV0RtK35tqc9vzKrQ

Anthropic confirmed the outage at 11:49 UTC on March 2, with users reporting 500 errors, failed logins, and Claude Code going completely offline.[bleepingcomputer +1]
• The disruption comes as Claude surged to No. 1 on Apple’s [AAPL +0.75%] App Store after Anthropic walked away from a U.S. military AI deal over safety concerns.[techradar +1]
• The outage follows a pattern of recent reliability issues, raising questions about infrastructure resilience as enterprise adoption, including at Microsoft [MSFT +1.82%], grows.[techbuzz]