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Claude Seems Down

Anthropic reported degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork, according to a status update. The outage impacts users of Anthropic's AI assistant and developer tools.

read1 min views20 publishedAug 16, 2026

It's not just Claude API. See: "We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork.". Seems pretty big to me.

It's software used by many here so of course you will hear about Claude downtime here.

source & further reading
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