Character AI incident

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Character AI experienced a major incident on May 18, 2026 affecting Character.AI, lasting 34m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 18, 2026, 08:47 PM UTC
Resolved
May 18, 2026, 09:21 PM UTC
Duration
34m
Detected by Pingoru
May 18, 2026, 08:47 PM UTC

Affected components

Character.AI

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 18, 2026, 08:47 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. resolved May 18, 2026, 09:21 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.