Claude Suffers Major Outage Disrupting Website and API

On August 17, Anthropic's Claude suffered a major outage that left claude.ai, platform.claude.com and its API inaccessible, with Polymarket describing it as a major outage. Anthropic confirmed it is investigating the performance issues and promised to provide updates soon.

2026-08-17 ~ 2026-08-17 · 3 related posts

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• Anthropic Claude experiencing major outage — Polymarket · 2026-08-17