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ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini down: What we know about the outages
Mashable • • business
Key Points:
- A widespread outage affected major AI services including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Grok on September 3, with users reporting stability and downtime issues starting around 11 a.m. ET.
- Anthropic confirmed that its AI service Claude experienced a partial outage due to an infrastructure issue but was fully restored by 16:16 UTC.
- OpenAI reported degraded performance and applied mitigation measures, with recovery still being monitored as of the latest update.
- The cause of the simultaneous outages across multiple AI platforms, including those from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and xAI, remains unknown.
- Such a simultaneous multi-platform AI outage is highly unusual, and the situation is still developing with further updates expected.
