Claude Down: Anthropic Investigates Global Outage

Anthropic has identified the cause of elevated errors affecting several Claude models and says a fix is underway. The affected models include Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, and Claude Opus 4.8. Here's the thing: Anthropic flagged these errors on its status page just after 5 a.m. UTC. The status moved from "Investigating" to "Identified" in just 21 minutes. User reports of problems with Claude AI began around 1:08 a.m. EDT. What's interesting is that Anthropic has not yet revealed the cause of these errors, nor has it provided a timeline for when a fix will be implemented. The company also hasn't specified how many requests failed. This incident follows 11 other logged incidents on Anthropic's status page since August 12. The bottom line: Teams using these Claude models should check the Claude Status Page before attempting to retry failed requests.