{
  "id": 5423905,
  "title": "Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/nobody-is-saying-why-openai-and-anthropic-had-outages-today",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-03T21:56:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Wired Business",
    "slug": "wired-business",
    "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/nobody-is-saying-why-openai-and-anthropic-had-outages-today/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On Thursday morning, AI chatbots from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI all experienced rare outages, leaving users without access to their respective services. SpaceX, the parent company of xAI, informed the public that the issues with Grok were due to an outage at their Memphis compute center that morning. However, neither OpenAI nor Anthropic mentioned any external factors in their statements to WIRED.\n\nSpaceX did not respond to WIRED's request for further clarification, but they apologized to their compute partners. Anthropic and xAI had entered a \"compute partnership\" with SpaceX in May. The OpenAI spokesperson, Kathleen Chaykowski, explained that a routing error around 7:43 am PT on Thursday caused ChatGPT and Codex to be unavailable for some users on the platform. The issue was resolved by 8:17 am PT and continues to be monitored.\n\nAnthropic also reported a \"partial outage\" at 6:23 am PT on Thursday, involving erroneous requests to Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5. They identified the cause and deployed a fix by 9:16 am PT, marking the issue as resolved. Shortly after, Claude Sonnet 5 experienced similar issues, which were also fixed by 9:16 am PT.\n\nxAI reported Grok outages across all platforms and services starting at 6:30 am PT, posting \"investigating outage\" on their service status page. The company confirmed the issue was resolved by 10:05 am PT, stating that traffic was healthy again.\n\nThere were isolated reports of a potential Google Gemini outage on Thursday morning, but Google did not confirm this or record any incidents on their service status dashboard. Google also did not respond to WIRED's request for comment. Typically, multiple outages within the same sector would indicate an issue with a cloud provider, content delivery network, or third-party vendor affecting multiple customers. However, OpenAI and Anthropic did not attribute the outages to a shared cause, and major players in internet infrastructure, such as Cloudflare, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure, also did not report any outages on Thursday.",
  "summary": "ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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      {
        "outlet": "Wired",
        "title": "Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/nobody-is-saying-why-openai-and-anthropic-had-outages-today-5424870",
        "published": "2026-09-03T21:56:21.000Z"
      }
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}