Multiple outlets report that users cannot access major AI chatbots at the same time, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Codex, Anthropic’s Claude, and xAI’s Grok. Downdetector and user reports indicate service disruptions begin around late morning Eastern Time, with ChatGPT returning error messages.
OpenAI’s status page and related reporting attribute the issue to “elevated errors” across ChatGPT and Codex. Quartz also reports that Microsoft Azure has disruptions during the same period, which may contribute to the breadth of the outage across platforms. Decrypt says services are later restored, though the disruptions affect people trying to use the tools for work.
Several outlets note that the outage appears multi-platform and rare, leaving some users searching for alternatives. Separate reporting from NDTV adds that users in India report similar access problems again, suggesting the issues may not be limited to a single brief event.
