September 3, 2026

Outages Impact Major US AI Companies

On Thursday, outages affected OpenAI, Anthropic PBC, and SpaceXAI, leading to disruptions for customers using services from these prominent US AI model makers. Users reported problems, supported by outage-tracking service Downdetector, indicating tens of thousands experienced issues with OpenAI’s services.

OpenAI announced it was investigating increased error rates with its products, including ChatGPT and Codex, a tool for coding. Meanwhile, Anthropic reported that several of its models had recovered from errors. The company is still working to resolve issues with its Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 models.

Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI also faced outages. According to the company status page, its chatbot Grok is encountering similar issues.

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