Character AI incident

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Character AI experienced a major incident on May 21, 2026 affecting Character.AI, lasting 14m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 21, 2026, 01:38 AM UTC
Resolved
May 21, 2026, 01:52 AM UTC
Duration
14m
Detected by Pingoru
May 21, 2026, 01:38 AM UTC

Affected components

Character.AI

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 21, 2026, 01:38 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. resolved May 21, 2026, 01:52 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.