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Claude Had a Two-Hour-46-Minute Multi-Model Outage on August 24, Hitting Opus 5, Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Anthropic's status page logged elevated errors on requests to Claude models from 04:50 UTC to 07:36 UTC on 2026-08-24, with the incident marked resolved at 08:30 UTC. The identified scope covered Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5 and other models, with Opus 5 and Fable 5 stabilizing first. The r/ClaudeAI discussion hub's auto-generated summary flags the recurring complaint that failed requests still consume the five-hour usage window, which a separate 57-upvote thread the same day documented as 23% of a limit burned on 'server is busy' across three prompts.
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