Just days after President Trump slammed Anthropic for disputes over wartime use of its AI, a major Claude outage has stretched on for hours.

Anthropic has made switching to its Claude AI chatbot easier than ever. The company announced a new memory import tool that can extract all of a competing AI chatbot's memories and context of you into a text prompt that can be fed into Claude.

Anthropic is making it easier to switch to its Claude AI from other chatbots with an update that brings Claude’s memory feature to users on the free plan, along with a new prompt and dedicated tool for importing data from other chatbots.

The app surged to the top free app on Apple's App Store after Anthropic clashed with the Department of Defense over limits for the technology.

Claude is reportedly down today, raising questions about whether the outage is connected to the ongoing “Quit ChatGPT” campaign. As users increasingly protest OpenAI’s controversial Pentagon partnership,

Claude suffered a second outage in less than 24 hours, disrupting users across the US and India, with thousands reporting issues across chat, app and web access.

Several users are taking to X to report of the outage, and we are also facing errors while using the AI chatbot. Downdetector records a slight rising peak in outage reports, with India seeing over 300 issues being reported. This follows an outage from last evening, which began at around 5pm IST and lasted for a few hours.

OpenAI replaced Anthropic on a Pentagon deal worth up to $200 million, but in doing so, it may have handed its biggest rival a victory by pushing them to the top of the App Store. Anthropic’s Claude climbed to the No.