Claude AI hit by repeated outages all week

Anthropic's Claude chatbot has suffered repeated major outages since Monday April 6, with over 3,000 user complaints logged on DownDetector. Users faced login errors, infinite thinking loops, and timeouts, particularly affecting the Sonnet 4.6 model across web, mobile, and voice platforms. Analysts attribute the disruptions to a surge in popularity overwhelming Anthropic's infrastructure, triggering cascading failures. Despite multiple claimed fixes, instability has persisted into Wednesday. Enterprise users are now reconsidering single-vendor reliance, with many switching to GPT-4o or Gemini 1.5 Pro as alternatives.