Claude Seems Down

Hacker News Sunday 16 August 2026, 21:52 UTC By zhan_eg 1 min read

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Throwing "Authentication service was unavailable. ", no updates on their status page, but there are on downdetector Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324078 Points: 17 # Comments: 8

Throwing "Authentication service was unavailable.", no updates on their status page, but there are on downdetector

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324078

Points: 17

# Comments: 8

Claude (PERSON)

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By John Gruber Manage GRC Faster with Drata’s Agentic Trust Management Platform When I wrote this week about Anthropic’s announcement that all Claude models, worldwide, would soon begin “watermarking” everything they generate, including text, to comply with this EU regulation, we were left to speculate how this was going to work, because Anthropic offered not even a vague description of how it would work — despite the fact that the title of the announcement was, absurdly and insultingly,...

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