Anthropic confirms Claude is down in a worldwide outage

**Executive Summary:** On March 2, 2026 (initially observed ~11:30 UTC) Anthropic's Claude experienced a broad outage causing elevated errors, timeouts, and failed requests across web, mobile, and API clients; Anthropic issued investigating notices and implemented fixes multiple times (notably updates at 11:49, 12:06, 18:07, 18:18, and 18:54 UTC) but the issue recurred and remained under monitoring, with Opus 4.6 still showing problems in tests. The document is primarily a service-status incident report and also includes a separate promotional reference to a malware analysis report.