Anthropic Claude Faces Major Outage, Affecting Logins and Services

Anthropic's AI service Claude experienced a major outage on August 17, preventing users from logging into Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork, with page loading and request processing also affected. The company's status page has marked these as a 'Major Outage,' while Claude Console and API remain operational. The issue began at 5:58 AM Beijing time, and Anthropic is investigating the cause without releasing details yet. This disruption has inconvenienced users worldwide, and the recovery time is unknown.