Anthropic Hits Three Service Disruptions in a Single Week

Anthropic resolved a 36-minute degraded-performance incident on August 16, 2026, across its full commercial stack — claude.ai, the Claude API, platform.claude.com, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. An authentication failure triggered it. Combined with an August 12 outage and another degraded-performance event, three incidents in one week raise infrastructure stability questions as Anthropic's product surface expands.