INDUSTRY05 SEPT 2026 · 09:26 UTC● LIVE COVERAGE

Major AI services hit simultaneous outage Thursday morning

On Thursday morning, Anthropic’s Claude models saw elevated error rates starting at 9:23 a.m. ET, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Codex degraded from 10:43 a.m. ET, xAI’s Grok showed a spike in user reports from under ten to 1,365 by 9:45 a.m. ET, and Google’s Gemini API was flagged as likely down between 10:45 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. ET.

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Major AI services hit simultaneous outage Thursday morning — On Thursday morning, Anthropic’s Claude models saw elevated error rates starting at 9:23 a.m. ET, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and C…

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