Anthropic confirms Claude is down in major outage affecting multiple services — Live Feedhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/anthropic-confirms-claude-is-down-in-major-outage-affecting-multiple-servicesContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. Anthropic restores Claude services after global infrastructure outagehttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/anthropic-confirms-claude-is-down-in-major-outage-affecting-multiple-serviceshttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/anthropic-confirms-claude-is-down-in-major-outage-affecting-multiple-services#u44695Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:40:40 +0000Anthropic has restored Claude AI services following a global infrastructure outage that lasted 35 minutes. The disruption affected multiple services, including login capabilities and Claude Code. Thousands of users encountered errors stating that Claude was unavailable or that the authentication service was unavailable. Anthropic confirmed the outage and later described the event as a brief service disruption that has since been resolved.Why it mattersClaude is a primary competitor in the large language model market. Infrastructure failures of this scale impact developers using Claude Code and