Outage recap · AssemblyAI

AssemblyAI outage — August 18, 2026

On August 18, 2026, AssemblyAI had a reported incident on AssemblyAI's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.

Elevated processing times for Universal-3 Pro and Universal-3.5 Pro async transcription

minor

Started: Aug 18, 3:34 PM EDT
Resolved: —
Duration: not marked resolved

As reported by AssemblyAI's official status page (status: monitoring). We report the vendor's own words, never an inferred cause.

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