Anthropic Claude down: Why it said it was unable to authenticate code

It's going to be a tough day to do anything online. Following a massive outage affecting multiple Microsoft services that still hasn't been resolved, Anthropic's AI assistant Claude is now exhibiting issues of its own. "We are investigating an issue with users authenticating to Claude.ai and Claude Code. We will provide an update as soon as possible," wrote Anthropic on the company's official Claude Status page. Mashable Light Speed The best tech deal this week The Apple iPhone 18 Pro is free right now with T-Mobile Products available for purchase through affiliate links. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. At Mashable, we're logging into Claude fine, but we've seen reports on X that some users are having trouble logging in. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. It's unclear whether Anthropic's problems are related to Microsoft's troubles. This is a developing story. We'll update this article when we know more.