Is Claude facing an outage? Here's the latest update

Published Thursday, August 6, 2026 · 8:16 AM EDT

Anthropic confirmed an outage affecting multiple Claude AI models on Tuesday and said it has implemented a fix with all services now fully operational. The company said the outage began early Tuesday for users in the United States and affected models including Mythos 5, Fable 5, Opus 5 and Sonnet 5. Anthropic said it identified the cause of elevated error rates affecting Claude Opus 5 and solved them while continuing to monitor broader service recovery. An Indian subpage of Downdetector recorded nearly 380 reports of Claude-related issues between 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm.

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