Anthropic's Claude AI Experiences Global Instability
2 sources · Brazil
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- CNN Brasil
- Tecnoblog
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Anthropic's AI services experienced global instability on Wednesday morning, August 5, affecting multiple models including Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5, Mythos 5, and Fable 5. Users reported that the chatbot failed to generate responses or displayed alerts citing unexpected capacity limitations. The disruption was reflected in a spike of reports on Downdetector between 8:00 and 10:00 Brasília time, with complaints originating from both Brazil and the United States. The issues impacted Claude Chat, Claude Code, and the company website. Anthropic acknowledged the performance degradation on its status page, stating that the cause of the errors had been identified. By approximately 11:30, Anthropic announced that all services had been normalized.
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