UPDATE 1:25 p.m. ET: OpenAI’s standing web page now says it is totally operational. “We’re not conscious of any points affecting our methods.” Experiences on Downdetector have additionally dropped, and the chatbot is responding to queries. Gemini additionally seems to be up and operating.
Grok, nonetheless, is at the moment displaying a warning that claims it is “experiencing points,” and warns that “Some options could also be sluggish or unavailable.” It is telling folks to verify status.x.ai for updates, however the web page does not at the moment present any service disruptions.
On Claude, we’re getting “This response did not load” to any queries.
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In the event you’re attempting to make use of AI instruments at the moment, you might be possible experiencing issues. A widespread outage affecting hundreds of customers is ongoing throughout OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, X’s Grok, and different AI platforms.
As proven on Downdetector, outages affecting OpenAI companies started round 10:30 a.m. ET, ramping up rapidly over the previous hour. The outage seems to be widespread, with the height variety of stories exceeding 36,000.
The OpenAI status page says it has utilized a repair and is “monitoring the restoration” after 24 minutes of downtime throughout ChatGPT and Codex. One PCMag reporter who was experiencing points says their service returned quickly after the repair, however is now working slowly. OpenAI has but to say what prompted the outage.
Google Gemini noticed an analogous spike in stories across the identical time, however Google has but to acknowledge an outage. One other PCMag reporter discovered that any prompts entered into Gemini returned an error, though stories on Downdetector are considerably smaller, suggesting it is not impacting all customers.
Points with Anthropic’s Claude started earlier within the day with a small spike in stories at 8:30 a.m. ET earlier than surging an hour later with extra constant points. The primary drawback instantly affected Claude Sonnet 5, whereas a second wave hit many extra fashions, together with Mythos/Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.
Anthropic says it has issued a repair for its points, which is now rolling out to customers. It says the at the moment affected fashions are restricted to Opus 5 and Opus 4.8, with recoveries taking place throughout Fable fashions and Opus 4.6.
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X’s AI platform, Grok, additionally seems to be down, alongside the smaller AI agent service Cursor, with each seeing spikes on Downdetector.
In the meantime, regardless of reports on Downdetector, Cloudflare says it’s not experiencing downtime. “Cloudflare will not be experiencing any vital service disruptions at the moment. Our companies are working usually, and any reporting that deviates from that is incorrect.”
It is a exceptional outage to hit all of those companies without delay, particularly because it does not appear to be affecting different companies outdoors the AI house. We’ll replace this text with extra data as we hear it.
Disclosure: Ziff Davis, PCMag’s guardian firm, filed a lawsuit in opposition to OpenAI in April 2025, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in coaching and working its AI methods.
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