Anthropic's Claude services are experiencing a major outage that began around 21:58 UTC on August 16, 2026, affecting Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. Users are reporting login failures, degraded performance, and incomplete requests. Anthropic first reported authentication issues, then a broader disruption affecting Claude.ai and platform.claude.com. Claude Console and the API remain operational, and the cause is still under investigation.
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Anthropic confirmed a major outage beginning around 21:58 UTC on August 16, 2026, affecting Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. The company first reported authentication issues, then at 22:07 UTC reported degraded performance on Claude.ai and platform.claude.com. Claude Console and the Claude API remained operational during the incident, and the cause was still under investigation. Track incidents like this Claude outage on daily.dev to know when your coding workflow is affected.
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