⚡️ OpenAI and Anthropic had simultaneous outages. Neither will say why.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went dark in the same window Thursday morning.
xAI at least copped to it: a compute outage in Memphis. OpenAI and Anthropic said nothing. No cause, no timeline, no shared dependency acknowledged.
Three competing labs, one morning. Probably a coincidence (sure).
WIRED
Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.
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