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Claude down and when will AI chatbot be back up? Users report Claude not working error as outage hits Claude models

Claude down and when will AI chatbot be back up? Users reported a Claude not working error on May 8, 2026 after elevated errors affected multiple Claude models. The issue started at 09:49 UTC and a fix rollout began at 10:22 UTC. The remaining impact affected Claude Opus 4.1 and Fast Mode for Claude Opus 4.6. Many users asked: Claude down? When will AI chatbot be back up? Here is the full explainer.