Pieces experienced a minor incident on August 4, 2026 affecting Anthropic, lasting 10m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 04, 2026, 08:57 PM UTC
Status: Investigating Anthropic is experiencing degraded performance. This may affect AI-powered features in Pieces. What you may experience: • Pieces Conversational Search responses may fail or time out when using affected models • Single-click summaries and snippet enrichment may be unavailable Affected models: Claude 4.6 Opus, Claude 4.6 Sonnet, Claude 4.5 Haiku, and 3 other models What still works: • On-device (local) models are fully operational • All locally saved snippets, conversations, and data are unaffected Workaround: You can switch to OpenAI (GPT-5.4, etc.), Google Gemini (Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, etc.), AWS Bedrock (Amazon Nova Pro, etc.) in your Pieces model settings. On-device (local) models also remain fully operational. We are monitoring the situation and will provide updates as more information becomes available. Track this issue: Anthropic Status Page: https://status.anthropic.com Affected components Anthropic (Degraded performance)
- resolved Aug 04, 2026, 09:06 PM UTC
Status: Resolved Anthropic has reported that all systems are operational. AI features powered by Anthropic — including Pieces Conversational Search and single-click summaries — should now be functioning normally. If you continue to experience issues, please contact support: https://pieces.app/support. Affected components Anthropic (Operational)
- resolved Aug 04, 2026, 09:07 PM UTC
Status: Resolved Auto-resolved: monitor confirms all impacted components are healthy. Affected components Anthropic (Operational)