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Major AI Outage Simultaneously Disrupts ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude

Simultaneous service disruptions affected OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude around 11 AM ET.

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OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude all experienced service issues simultaneously. [1] On Thursday, users reported widespread access failures for the three major AI platforms ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok across different regions of the world. [2][3] Elon Musk's AI company xAI filed a motion for a preliminary injunction with the US District Court for the District of Minnesota to prevent the enforcement of the state's new AI nude image ban. [4][5] The API endpoint at us-east-1.api.x.ai is currently reported as experiencing an outage. [6] xAI reported an outage affecting the Grok model service on iOS devices. [7] At approximately 11 AM ET, ChatGPT began returning error messages to users attempting to use the chatbot. [8] ChatGPT's status page indicated there were currently elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex. [9] The outage prevented users from accessing conversations, logins, file uploads, voice mode, search, deep research, and image generation on ChatGPT. [10] Anthropic reported that Claude, its chatbot service, also presented problems for some users on September 3, 2026. [11] The nature of the disruptions varied, with some users finding services completely inaccessible while others experienced errors, slowness, or interruptions. [12]
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  1. OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude all experienced service issues simultaneously. · theverge.com
  2. On September 3, 2026, thousands of users globally reported difficulties accessing major AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok. · La República.pePeru
  3. On Thursday, users reported widespread access failures for the three major AI platforms ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok across different regions of the world. · Publimetro Colombia
  4. Elon Musk's AI company xAI filed a motion for a preliminary injunction with the US District Court for the District of Minnesota to prevent the enforcement of the state's new AI nude image ban. · 매일경제South Korea
  5. On April 4, the US District Court for the District of Minnesota rejected xAI's application for a preliminary injunction regarding Minnesota House Bill 1606. · 매일경제South Korea
  6. The API endpoint at us-east-1.api.x.ai is currently reported as experiencing an outage. · x.ai
  7. xAI reported an outage affecting the Grok model service on iOS devices. · x.ai
  8. At approximately 11 AM ET, ChatGPT began returning error messages to users attempting to use the chatbot. · theverge.com
  9. ChatGPT's status page indicated there were currently elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex. · theverge.com
  10. The outage prevented users from accessing conversations, logins, file uploads, voice mode, search, deep research, and image generation on ChatGPT. · theverge.com
  11. Anthropic reported that Claude, its chatbot service, also presented problems for some users on September 3, 2026. · La República.pePeru
  12. The nature of the disruptions varied, with some users finding services completely inaccessible while others experienced errors, slowness, or interruptions. · La República.pePeru
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