Anthropic's AI Services Hit Three Outages in One Week

Anthropic fixed a 36-minute slowdown on August 16, 2026, affecting all its products — claude.ai, the Claude API, platform.claude.com, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. A login system failure caused it. With two earlier incidents that week, the total reaches three, raising concerns about whether Anthropic's systems can keep up as it launches more products.