
OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude are back online after they all began experiencing issues around the same time on Thursday. At about 11AM ET, ChatGPT started returning error messages for users trying to use the chatbot, with its status page saying there were "elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex." In addition to preventing users from having conversations with ChatGPT, the outage affected logins, file uploads, voice mode, search, deep research, image gene
Three major AI chatbots experienced outages around the same time on Thursday, with one starting at 9:30AM ET and another at around 11AM ET. The outages affected core functions including conversations, logins, file uploads, voice mode, and image generation. While the services have since been restored, the cause remains unclear and it is unknown whether the issues were related to each other.

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ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.

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