Anthropic experienced a major incident on May 18, 2026 affecting claude.ai and Claude Console (platform.claude.com) and 1 more component, lasting 8m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
claude.aiClaude Console (platform.claude.com)Claude API (api.anthropic.com)Claude CodeClaude Cowork
Update timeline
- investigating May 18, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC
We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 4.7. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- resolved May 18, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC
The issue affecting Claude services has been resolved. Impact occurred from 21:47 to 22:18 UTC.