Anthropic opened an incident on August 20, 2026, after elevated errors began hitting requests to what the company described as some Claude models, with the disruption reaching across nearly the entire Claude product line. The incident notice, posted at 19:16 UTC, lists claude.ai, the Claude API at api.anthropic.com, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork as affected. The Claude status page shows all four components in partial outage, while Claude Console at platform.claude.com and Claude for Government…