Claude has become the fastest-growing company in history, and millions of its enterprise users feel the pinch when the service goes down. Claude has been down for over 4 hours for a large section of users in Asia, Africa and South America. “We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, and Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5 and are working on a fix. pic.twitter.com/po05RwujRW — Nitin (@nitin_coder) August 5, 2026People talked about how they were unable to work with Claude being down. It remains to be seen when Claude is back to normal, but for millions of Anthropic users, the outage appears to be hurting productivity in a way that wasn’t common in the pre-AI era.