{"id":141808,"date":"2026-08-17T01:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/141808\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T01:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:19:14","slug":"claude-ai-down-users-report-authentication-service-unavailable-error-amid-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/141808\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude AI down: Users report \u2018authentication service unavailable\u2019 error amid outage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: Claude AI is back up after a brief outage reported across the United States on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

\"AA Claude artificial intelligence (AI) logo on a smartphone. (Bloomberg)<\/p>\n

Anthropic\u2019s status page<\/a> said, “The issue affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork has been resolved.”<\/p>\n

Earlier, the company said, “A fix has been deployed for the issue affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork and we are monitoring for recovery.”<\/p>\n

Anthropic has not said what caused the outage.<\/p>\n

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Initial report: Claude<\/a> is facing a widespread outage, with users reporting authentication errors and difficulty accessing the AI chatbot. Anthropic\u2019s status page shows a service disruption affecting Claude services.<\/p>\n

Downdetector reports<\/p>\n

According to outage-tracking site Downdetector, reports of problems began rising around 6 p.m. EDT on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Users in several parts of the US reported seeing an \u201cauthentication service unavailable\u201d error when trying to access Claude.<\/p>\n

By 6:15 p.m., Downdetector had received over 15,000 error reports.<\/p>\n

One user wrote, \u201cIt’s been down about 15 minutes now, keep getting an authenticator error.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another added, “All claude is down, we are in the stone age now.”<\/p>\n

A third user reported, “Claude is not working. I cant send messeges.”<\/p>\n

Another wrote, “I am experiencing Claude service outage for at least last 15 minutes. I’m in Silicon Valley.”<\/p>\n

One more user added, “At least it’s on a Sunday (Los Angeles time). Sorry for folks that this is hitting their work day.”<\/p>\n

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What Anthropic said<\/p>\n

Anthropic initially acknowledged the problem on its status page, saying it was investigating an issue affecting users trying to authenticate to claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork.<\/p>\n

In a later update, the company said, “We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. We will provide an update as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update: Claude AI is back up after a brief outage reported across the United States on Sunday evening.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,3154,182,34448,20604,69942,69941,20605,69940],"class_list":["post-141808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-anthropic-claude","tag-claude","tag-claude-ai-down","tag-claude-down","tag-claude-error","tag-claude-not-working","tag-claude-outage","tag-claude-temporarily-unavailable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}