Anthropic Claude major outage
Service Disruption
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Anthropic's Claude services are in a major outage, blocking some users from signing in and degrading performance across Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. The disruption also affects platform.claude.com and can leave requests incomplete or fail to load. The outage began at 21:58 UTC on August 16, 2026, and the cause remains under investigation.
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17.08.2026 01:28 2 articles · 13d ago
Anthropic Claude major outage
Initial DisclosureAt 21:58 UTC on August 16, 2026, Anthropic began investigating authentication issues affecting Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. The event quickly broadened into a major outage with degraded performance and failed loads.
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- Anthropic confirms Claude is down in major outage affecting multiple services — www.bleepingcomputer.com — 17.08.2026 01:28
- Anthropic confirms Claude is down in major outage affecting multiple services — www.bleepingcomputer.com — 17.08.2026 01:28