Anthropic experienced elevated error rates across multiple Claude models — including Claude Mythos 5, Fable 5, Opus 5, and Opus 4.8 — affecting both claude.ai and the API for approximately 3.4 hours on August 24, 2026. Users were unable to get responses, encountering "response didn't load" errors despite having active subscriptions and working internet connections. The root cause was identified and resolved, with full service restored by 12:36am PT.
This issue has been resolved. From 9:50pm PT / 04:50 UTC through 00:36am PT / 07:36 UTC, users saw elevated errors on requests to Claude models, including Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5.
At this time, we have seen errors stabilize on Opus 5 and Fable 5, and are working to fully resolve success rates on all affected models. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
We are continuing to work to resolve issues causing elevated requests on multiple models. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, and other Claude models and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
We are investigating elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, and Claude Opus 4.8. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
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