Claude, ChatGPT/Codex, and Grok suffered a widespread outage on September 3, 2026 with elevated errors confirmed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. Services began recovering after about 30 minutes though Grok lagged, coinciding with OpenAI teasing its GPT-6 Astra launch.
The incident occurred while OpenAI is rumored to share news around the launch of its next big model, called Astra, as soon as today.
The incident highlights the shared infrastructure dependencies across major AI providers.
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