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Anthropic (Claude) outage on 2026-08-16: Service disruption on Claude services

Started: August 16, 2026 at 09:58 PM UTC
Resolved: August 16, 2026 at 10:34 PM UTC
Duration: 36m

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August 16, 2026 at 10:34 PM UTC

The issue affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork has been resolved.

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