Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
Wired AI Lily Hay Newman September 3, 2026

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# AI Chatbots Go Down Simultaneously—But Nobody's Talking Three major AI assistants—ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok—all stopped working at roughly the same time today, which is unusual and suspicious, but the companies haven't explained why. The simultaneous outages suggest a possible common problem, whether that's a shared technical service failing, a cyberattack, or something else entirely. For now, users are left guessing what happened and whether it'll happen again.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.
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