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Discussion Hub for new Claude incident

Degraded performance for multiple models on Aug 18, 2026

Frontier EditorialSource: Reddit r/ClaudeAI
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Discussion Hub for new Claude incident: Degraded performance for multiple models on Aug 18, 2026

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Resolved - The issue affecting Claude Opus 5 has been resolved. Impact occurred from 16:11 to 18:23 UTC. Aug 18, 19:01 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Aug 18, 18:26 UTC Update - We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Opus 5. We will provide an update as soon as possible. Aug 18, 17:12 UTC Update - We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Haiku 4.5, and other Claude models. We will provide an update as soon as possible. Aug 18, 16:20 UTC Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting multiple models. We will provide an update as soon as possible. Aug 18, 16:20 UTC Post flair and post body will be updated as the incident report is updated by Anthropic. This discussion post will be removed from subreddit highlights one hour after the incident is resolved. View this incident on status.claude.com submitted by /u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot [link] [comments]