Claude AI experiences widespread outage; Anthropic identifies cause but no timeline yet
Anthropic's Claude AI is down, with users reporting problems across the service. The company has identified the cause of elevated errors affecting multiple models, but has not given a timeline for a fix.
Complaints about the outage also surged on Downdetector and X, indicating a broad impact. Anthropic acknowledged the issue on its status page, saying it had identified the cause of “elevated errors” affecting requests to multiple Claude models, including Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 5. The company said it was working on a fix.
The status page initially listed Claude Opus 4.8 as one of the affected models, but Anthropic later updated the notice to say the problem affected multiple models. In its latest update, the company said it was continuing to work to resolve issues causing elevated requests on multiple models and would provide another update as soon as possible. No timeline has been provided for full resolution.
[Editor's Summary: Anthropic's Claude AI service suffered a multi-hour outage starting early Aug. 24, 2026, affecting multiple models. The company has acknowledged the issue and identified the cause, but has not yet offered a restoration timeline. The disruption drew widespread user reports on social media and outage tracking platforms.]