Anthropic Outage: Claude Inaccessible for Many Users

On August 5, numerous Claude users encountered access difficulties, with a rise in error messages and degraded response times. Unlike other recent incidents where the official status remained silent while complaints piled up on social media, Anthropic this time confirmed the issue directly on its status page. In an update on status.claude.com, the company said it had identified the cause of a high error rate affecting requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, and Claude Sonnet 5, and was working on a fix. Down Detector reports followed a typical pattern: a sudden spike in reports late in the morning, with users reporting generic error messages or responses that would not load. Tests conducted by Numerama failed to confirm a malfunction at the time of writing.