Anthropic has announced a glitch in its AI. This startup has launched a "software apocalypse"

Startup Anthropic has experienced glitches with its artificial intelligence app Claude. This happened shortly after the app topped the Apple App Store charts. The company reported record volumes of user registrations. It was Anthropic's AI tools that caused investors to worry about the future of the business model of companies in a number of industries, causing a "software apocalypse" - a stock sell-off.

Anthropic reported a "partial outage" at Claude on March 2. According to the Claude Status website, which monitors Anthropic's services, the company is noticing "partial outages" within a number of sites and services, including claude.ai and the Claude Code platform, lasting more than two hours.

Anthropic's team is working to bring systems in line with the "incredible" demand Claude has enjoyed in recent days, a representative for the startup told MarketWatch. The company previously reported that the service has experienced "unprecedented demand" in recent weeks and has seen a record number of daily registrations, the publication noted.

Anthropic in February released a number of AI-based tools that investors and some analysts saw as a threat to the existing business models of companies across a wide range of industries. This led to a market sell-off, which Wall Street dubbed the "software apocalypse".

On February 27, US President Donald Trump banned US federal agencies from using Anthropic's technology and software as a result of Anthropic's conflict with the US Department of Defense. The startup had a contract worth up to $200 million, but sought guarantees that its technology would not be used for mass surveillance or the development of autonomous weapons.

OpenAI, a competitor of Anthropic, then entered into a contract with the U.S. government. This caused criticism of the company, after which the Claude app rose to the top of the rankings in the App Store, Marketwatch notes.

In February, Anthropic raised $30 billion in investment at a valuation of $380 billion, Despite this, Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives warned that "some corporate clients may put Claude's implementation on hold until the situation is resolved in the courts," quoted Marketwatch.

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