Elevated errors on Claude Sonnet 5
minor- Started
- Jul 8, 2:26 AM EDT
- Resolved
- —
- Duration
- not marked resolved
As reported by Anthropic's official status page (status: investigating). We report the vendor's own words, never an inferred cause.
Outage recap · Anthropic
Claude outage — July 8, 2026
On July 8, 2026, Claude had 4 reported incidents on Anthropic's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.
Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.8
minor- Started
- Jul 8, 2:00 PM EDT
- Resolved
- —
- Duration
- not marked resolved
As reported by Anthropic's official status page (status: identified). We report the vendor's own words, never an inferred cause.
Degraded performance for Claude Code on the web, Cowork Remote, Claude Tag, and Claude Code Review sessions
minor- Started
- Jul 8, 3:07 PM EDT
- Resolved
- —
- Duration
- not marked resolved
As reported by Anthropic's official status page (status: monitoring). We report the vendor's own words, never an inferred cause.
Elevated errors for Claude Opus 4.8
major- Started
- Jul 8, 11:28 PM EDT
- Resolved
- —
- Duration
- not marked resolved
As reported by Anthropic's official status page (status: investigating). We report the vendor's own words, never an inferred cause.
The AI cascade
Claude depends on Anthropic. When that upstream has an incident, it doesn't hit Claude alone — these AI tools share the dependency and can degrade at the same time:
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AIDownCheck is not affiliated with Anthropic. This recap summarizes incidents published on Anthropic's official status page.