{
  "id": 5424870,
  "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",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-03T21:56:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Wired",
    "slug": "wired",
    "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 three major companies experienced rare outages, causing temporary downtime for their services. Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all faced issues, although the specific cause remains unclear. SpaceX, the parent company of xAI, confirmed the Grok outage was due to an issue at their Memphis compute center. Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic cited external sources when speaking with WIRED, but both acknowledged the problems. Anthropic experienced a \"partial outage\" around 6:23 am PT, while OpenAI reported a routing error around 7:43 am PT that made ChatGPT and Codex unavailable for some users. xAI reported Grok outages across all platforms shortly after 6:30 am PT, with the issue marked as resolved by 10:05 am PT. Reports of a potential Google Gemini outage were unconfirmed, as Google did not respond to WIRED's request for comment. In typical situations, multiple outages within the same sector at the same time might suggest a cloud provider, content delivery network, or third-party vendor issue affecting multiple customers. However, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI did not attribute the outages to any shared cause, and major players in the internet infrastructure space did not report any issues 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 Business",
        "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",
        "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."
}