5 September 2026
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down simultaneously Thursday morning
First reported
Computerworld ran this on , 2 days before the next source picked it up.
- OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude chatbot, and SpaceX's Grok AI assistant each experienced separate outages lasting two to four hours on Thursday, affecting search, file uploads, and automated workflows.
- Analysts suspect a shared infrastructure failure, such as a content delivery network or domain system provider, may have caused all three to fail near-simultaneously rather than three independent incidents.
- As AI handles more critical business tasks and pulls humans out of the loop, employees risk losing the manual skills needed to recover quickly when services fail, experts warned.
Reported by Forbes, Computerworld