What happened during the Anthropic outage in August 2026?
On August 16, 2026, beginning around 21:58 UTC, a major outage hit Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork simultaneously. Anthropic confirmed the incident, which affected the full range of its user-facing products and left developers and businesses without access during the disruption.
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Anthropic's August: Global Watermarks, a Policy Heavyweight, and a Rough OutageAnthropic rolled out worldwide watermarking, hired a former California Supreme Court justice as policy chief, and weathered a major Claude outage.
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