{"slug": "all-the-major-ai-chatbots-are-experiencing-outages-right-now", "title": "All the Major AI Chatbots Are Experiencing Outages Right Now", "summary": "Major AI chatbots including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, xAI's Grok, and Google's Gemini experienced outages or degraded performance on Thursday, with issues beginning after 9:00 a.m. ET, according to user reports and Down Detector. OpenAI said it applied a mitigation and is monitoring recovery, while Anthropic attributed Claude's partial outage to an infrastructure issue affecting Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the Claude API. Perplexity users reported no issues.", "body_md": "It’s not just you. The major AI chatbots are currently experiencing outages or degraded performance right now. And it’s not clear why.\n\nUsers report OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, xAI’s Grok, and Google’s Gemini have all seen some form of outage on Thursday. Perplexity users have not reported any issues.\n\nReached for comment over email, a spokesperson for OpenAI directed Gizmodo to the ChatGPT status page, writing, “We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.” But when Gizmodo checked, the status page read: “We are still experiencing degraded performance.”\n\nA spokesperson for Anthropic told Gizmodo, “Claude is mostly back up after an infrastructure issue caused a partial outage across Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the Claude API. We will share updates on our status page as we continue to restore service.”\n\nThe spokesperson added, “We know Claude is part of how many of you get work done, and we appreciate your understanding.”\n\nGoogle and xAI didn’t immediately respond to Gizmodo’s inquiries. But Anthropic is absolutely correct that many people have started to rely on AI chatbots in ways that can really disrupt their workday.\n\nDown Detector shows the problems at the major chatbots seem to have started after 9:00 a.m. ET on Thursday.\n\n*This is a developing story, and this article will be updated as we learn more.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/all-the-major-ai-chatbots-are-experiencing-outages-right-now", "canonical_source": "https://gizmodo.com/all-the-major-ai-chatbots-are-experiencing-outages-right-now-2000806887", "published_at": "2026-09-03 15:55:15+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-03 16:26:26.472962+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "ChatGPT", "Anthropic", "Claude", "xAI", "Grok", "Google", "Gemini"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/all-the-major-ai-chatbots-are-experiencing-outages-right-now", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/all-the-major-ai-chatbots-are-experiencing-outages-right-now.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/all-the-major-ai-chatbots-are-experiencing-outages-right-now.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/all-the-major-ai-chatbots-are-experiencing-outages-right-now.jsonld"}}