Hall of Fails — August 2026
62 items this month across all lanes. Ranked by lane weight × log(engagement + 5 × 🔥) × thumbnail bonus; ties by id. All months.
AI Fails & Slop
I made a hologram!
See! Real holograms! Dice and crystals that aren't there any more, thanks to the power of lasers!!1!
AI Incidents & Outages
Fable 5 unavailable
Aug 20 , 01:51 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Aug 20 , 00:03 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring for service restoration. Aug 19 , 23:10 UTC Investigating - We are investiga…
Investigating service degradation — Automations
Aug 24 , 16:33 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Aug 24 , 16:23 UTC Monitoring - We are seeing improvements and will continue monitoring for service restoration. Aug 24 , 16:04 UTC Investigating - We are in…
Degraded performance for Claude Opus 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5
Aug 19 , 11:02 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Aug 19 , 10:33 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Aug 19 , 09:42 UTC Identified - We have identified the cause of…
Service disruption on Claude services
Aug 16 , 22:34 UTC Resolved - The issue affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork has been resolved. Aug 16 , 22:22 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been deployed for the issue af…
test incident
Status: Resolved all our tests are back to normal
Incident with Webhooks
Aug 13 , 15:36 UTC Resolved - Between 14:24 and 14:53 UTC on 13 August 2026, a routine background job to delete an organization overwhelmed a key shared database, causing multiple GitHub services to briefly return elevat…
AI Bubble & Money
NVDA stock rises 3% as AI infrastructure demand lifts sentiment
NVDA stock rises 3% as AI infrastructure demand lifts sentiment eciks.org
Opinion | This Is How the A.I. Debt Binge Sinks the Economy
Opinion | This Is How the A.I. Debt Binge Sinks the Economy nytimes.com
I asked ChatGPT if the S&P 500 will crash 50% due to the AI bubble and it said…
I asked ChatGPT if the S&P 500 will crash 50% due to the AI bubble and it said… Yahoo Finance UK
Mizuho’s Rakesh Sees Wall Street Drilling In on Nvidia Spending
Mizuho’s Rakesh Sees Wall Street Drilling In on Nvidia Spending bloomberg.com
AI Bubble Could Be Ready to Pop and Jim Cramer May Be the Warning Sign
AI Bubble Could Be Ready to Pop and Jim Cramer May Be the Warning Sign Yahoo Finance
Why Big Tech’s AI Spending Is $3 Trillion Higher Than It Seems
Why Big Tech’s AI Spending Is $3 Trillion Higher Than It Seems wsj.com