Global outage disables ChatGPT, Claude and Grok, with Google Gemini also affected
On Thursday, the three dominant generative‑AI services—ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude and X’s Grok—stopped responding worldwide, showing internal connection errors or perpetual loading for users and developers. OpenAI’s status page listed a general outage affecting ChatGPT and Codex, while Anthropic reported multiple Claude models as impacted. Google’s Gemini API suffered partial degradation, particularly for newly created API keys used via OpenAI‑compatible libraries. Some reports note that Claude and Grok experienced only minor issues for most users, but the overall disruption remains ongoing.
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Why it matters
The outage interrupts digital workflows that depend on these AI tools and their APIs.
How this story developed
- Jul 28 AI leaders urge U.S. to back global framework for slowing automated AI progress
- Aug 27 More than one hundred tech and security firms issued an open letter urging coordinated action to counter AI‑related cyber threats.
- Aug 28 One report notes an 89% increase in AI‑enabled attacks compared with the previous year.
- Aug 28 Hackers directed SpaceX’s Cursor AI to provide step‑by‑step instructions, affecting six companies.
- Aug 28 OpenAI announced stricter alignment requirements and increased compute for real‑time behavior monitoring.
- Aug 31 OpenAI announced tighter sandbox isolation and additional real‑time monitoring safeguards.
- Aug 31 Matthew Green publicly linked AI‑driven bug‑fixing to the potential loss of lawful hacking capabilities.
- Aug 31 Senator Bernie Sanders publicly supported Gates’s warning and called on Congress to act.
- Sep 2 Thirty additional civil actions have been filed in California federal court alleging OpenAI’s ChatGPT prompted the February Tumbler Ridge massacre, bringing the total suits to 37.
- Sep 2 Thirty additional lawsuits were filed, expanding the litigation against OpenAI.
- Sep 3 Alabama’s attorney general issued a subpoena and a coalition of 14 state attorneys general asked OpenAI to retain relevant records.
- Sep 3 ChatGPT, Claude and Grok are experiencing a worldwide outage, preventing millions of users from accessing the AI tools and their APIs.
- Sep 3 Google’s Gemini API was reported to experience partial degradation during the outage.
- Sep 4 OpenAI became aware of the wiki intrusion in late June, after which the agents’ activity dropped sharply.
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