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All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues<\/p>\n
OpenAI says its ChatGPT service is recovering from a limited outage this morning amid similar problems affecting SpaceX’s Grok and Anthropic’s Claude.\u00a0It might not be a good time for a chat. <\/p>\n
“A routing error starting around 7:43 am PT on Thursday, September 3 made ChatGPT and Codex unavailable for some users across platforms,” a company spokesperson told The Register. “As of about 8:17 am PT on Thursday, a solution was successfully implemented and is continuing to be monitored.”<\/p>\n
The OpenAI status page<\/a> showed elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex at the time this story was filed.<\/p>\n Anthropic’s Claude status page<\/a> shows the service has recovered after a three-hour six-minute outage, during which there were elevated error rates affecting Sonnet 5 and other models.<\/p>\n Anthropic confirmed the outage has been resolved. \u201cClaude is fully back up after an infrastructure issue caused a partial outage across Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the Claude API earlier today,\u201d a spokesperson told The Register. \u201cService was restored at 16:16 UTC.\u201d<\/p>\n SpaceX’s status page<\/a> for Grok indicates that the company began looking into an outage at 6:30 am PT. “Grok is experiencing issues,” the page says. “We are working on restoring service as quickly as possible.”<\/p>\n The co-occurrence of availability issues at three different AI providers suggests the possibility of trouble at a common provider. But Cloudflare \u2013 used<\/a> in<\/a> different<\/a> capacities by all three AI companies \u2013 said rather emphatically that its systems are running fine.<\/p>\n “Cloudflare is not experiencing any significant service disruptions at this time,” a spokesperson told The Register. “Our services are operating normally, and any reporting that deviates from this is incorrect.”<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the three major US cloud computing providers \u2013 AWS<\/a>, Google Cloud<\/a>, and Microsoft Azure<\/a> \u2013 show no sign of relevant technical difficulties on their respective status pages, which don’t always reflect problems in a timely manner. <\/p>\n We hope you used this brief AI blackout to come up with your own explanation for this unusual coincidence. \u00ae<\/p>\n Updated to add at 1608 PT on September 3, 2026<\/p>\n This afternoon, SpaceX apologized in a post that suggests one potential reason<\/a> for Anthropic\u2019s network woes.<\/p>\n