AI Daily News — 2026-08-18 (Tue)

Complementary record of server outage period. Claude caused a large-scale failure, causing frequent errors in multiple services including claude.ai, API, and Claude Code. Announced that it has halted some reinforcement learning training deployments as the next model Astra could reach critical cyber capability thresholds. Claude published research showing that he was able to design protein binders from scratch for 14 of 15 targets.