Anthropic experienced a major incident on August 14, 2026 affecting claude.ai, lasting 30m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
claude.ai
Update timeline
- identified Aug 14, 2026, 11:57 PM UTC
We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Fable 5 and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- identified Aug 15, 2026, 12:20 AM UTC
We have identified the cause of the issue affecting claude.ai and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- identified Aug 15, 2026, 12:21 AM UTC
We have identified the cause of the issue affecting Claude services and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
- resolved Aug 15, 2026, 12:27 AM UTC
The issue affecting Claude services has been resolved. Impact occurred from 20:00 Aug 14, 2026 to 00:11 Aug 15 , 2026 UTC.