ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Hit by Simultaneous Outages

Three of the world's most widely used AI chatbots—OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok—experienced apparent simultaneous outages on Wednesday, leaving many users temporarily unable to access the services and raising fresh questions about the resilience of the rapidly expanding AI infrastructure ecosystem. Reports of disruptions began surfacing from around 11:00 AM ET, according to user complaints and company status pages. OpenAI's status page noted "elevated errors across ChatGPT