Nobody is saying why OpenAI and Anthropic had outages
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Simultaneous outages hit ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok on Sep 3, 2026, with no clear cause disclosed.
WIRED's Lily Hay Newman reports that OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI's chatbots suffered nearly simultaneous outages on September 3, 2026. WIRED states the reasons remain murky, as the companies have not explained the cause. The article notes the outages affected ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok at nearly the exact same time.
What commenters are saying
Commenters on the related HN thread express skepticism about coincidence explanations, with one suggesting potential astroturfing. A top comment speculates that the outages may stem from shared dependencies on Azure and Cloudflare: 'One suffered a serious outage which triggered all the load to shift to the other which caused a domino effect.' Others joke about the incident or express hope the services stay offline.