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. At Mashable, we're logging into Claude fine, but we've seen reports on X that some u