Claude AI is back following service outage (Update)

Update, May 13, 2026 (10:543 AM ET): As of just before 11 AM ET, Claude’s status tracker now reports that the service is operational. Our original post about the outage appears below.

Original article, May 13, 2026 (09:24 aM ET): Anthropic’s Claude AI seems to be experiencing an outage this morning. According to Claude’s status page (and our own experience here at Android Authority), the chatbot is giving a lot of people trouble right now, and the company is investigating the cause.