ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude all went down at the same time
The Verge Emma Roth
ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude all had problems at once. A reminder that the shiny AI race still runs on brittle plumbing.
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT, xAI’s Grok, and Anthropic’s Claude were all having issues at the same time. The loudest one was ChatGPT, which started throwing error messages for users around 11AM ET.
OpenAI’s status page said there were “elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex.” That knocked out more than simple chatting. Logins were affected, along with file uploads, voice mode, search, deep research, image generation, and other parts of the product.
OpenAI says it has “applied a mitigation” and is “monitoring recovery,” but the tools were still described as having “degraded performance.” So the fix may be in motion, just not finished yet.
And the timing is awkward. The outage hit while OpenAI was teasing the launch of Astr … which is exactly the sort of moment when a company would prefer not to be reminding everyone that the machine can still wobble all at once.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
The AI industry keeps selling magic, but it still looks a lot like a shared utility with a loose bolt. When ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude all wobble together, the real product isn’t intelligence — it’s uptime, and that part is still embarrassingly fragile.
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