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Friday 14 August 2026

AI news for 14 Aug 2026

8 items from 4 labs. 2 posts, 1 release, 2 model notes and 3 incidents. Anthropic was busiest with 4.

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Service disruption on Claude services

Aug 14 , 21:58 UTC Resolved - The issue affecting the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork has been resolved. Impact occurred from 20:14 to 20:38 UTC. Aug 14 , 20:44 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been deployed for the issue affecting the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork and we are monitoring for recovery. Aug 14 , 20:44 UTC Identified - We have identified the cause of the issue affecting the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible. Aug 14 , 20:30 UTC Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded…

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How Claude’s text watermark works

In this article, we share answers to some of the questions we’ve received about how our chosen watermarking method works, whether it affects Claude’s outputs, and why we’re making this change.

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Issues reaching status.claude.com

Aug 14 , 10:53 UTC Resolved - The issue resulting in users being unable to reach status.claude.com has been resolved. Aug 14 , 07:58 UTC Investigating - We are aware of issues with reaching status.claude.com, specifically regarding an invalid certificate issues. We are working to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

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Service disruption on Claude Code on the web and related services

Aug 14 , 00:51 UTC Resolved - The issue affecting Claude services has been resolved. Impact occurred from 23:42 to 00:50 UTC. Aug 14 , 00:36 UTC Investigating - We are investigating degraded performance in Claude Code on the Web sessions and related products (Cowork Remote, Routines, Claude Code Mobile)

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openai-python v3.1.0

3.1.0 (2026-08-14) Features api: add WebSocket stream IDs ( #3612 ) ( d9029e3 ) api: add workload identity access token issued event ( #3601 ) ( df274d4 ) api: deprecate Sora video APIs ( #3610 ) ( 721cb1c ) api: Ultrafast tier, structured MCP and websocket errors, separate websocket events ( #3617 ) ( f38355e ) Chores remove Stainless attribution and infrastructure ( #3599 ) ( a1eeab5 )

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