--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "ebcb8260867cec9052a85a2def52f4463503cca7a2f327d685146610d556b3c3" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/ebcb8260?lang=en" title: "Anthropic Reports Major Claude Outage Hitting AI and Code Services" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-08-16T23:40:50.000Z" category: "Products" topics: ["anthropic","claude","claude-code"] source_urls: ["https://x.com/FirstSquawk/status/2089119569818644685","https://x.com/Polymarket/status/2089118505153294758","https://x.com/Kalshi/status/2089110607345647701"] summary: "The developer of the Claude series is investigating systemic performance degradation and login errors that have disrupted access to Claude AI, Claude Code, and other associated services. Anthropic confirmed it is analyzing the problem after users reported the AI system was unavailable. Reports of the failure surfaced on August 16, with events beginning around 10 p.m. UTC. The company has not specified the root cause of the login failures or provided an estimated time for recovery." --- # Anthropic Reports Major Claude Outage Hitting AI and Code Services > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-08-16T23:40:50.000Z **Category:** Products **Topics:** anthropic, claude, claude\-code ## Summary The developer of the Claude series is investigating systemic performance degradation and login errors that have disrupted access to Claude AI, Claude Code, and other associated services\. Anthropic confirmed it is analyzing the problem after users reported the AI system was unavailable\. Reports of the failure surfaced on August 16, with events beginning around 10 p\.m\. UTC\. The company has not specified the root cause of the login failures or provided an estimated time for recovery\. ## Sources - [Story source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]()