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OpenAI and Anthropic Experience Outages on September 3
On September 3, 2026, outages affected AI chatbots from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, causing downtime for users. SpaceX attributed the Grok outage to an issue at its Memphis compute center, while OpenAI and Anthropic reported routing errors and partial outages, respectively. There were also unconfirmed reports of a Google Gemini outage, but no shared cause was identified.
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On September 3, 2026, outages affected AI chatbots from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, causing downtime for users. SpaceX attributed the Grok outage to an issue at its Memphis compute center, while OpenAI and Anthropic reported routing errors and partial outages, respectively. There were also unconfirmed reports of a Google Gemini outage, but no shared cause was identified.
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