Anthropic Logs Three Service Disruptions in One Week

Anthropic resolved a 36-minute degraded-performance incident on August 16, 2026, affecting its full commercial stack — claude.ai, the Claude API, platform.claude.com, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. An authentication failure triggered the disruption. A separate August 12 outage and additional degraded-performance event bring the week's total to three incidents, prompting questions about infrastructure stability as Anthropic's product surface grows.