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OpenAI and other artificial intelligence services suffered major outages

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The outage in OpenAI's ChatGPT service blocked access for millions of users and became trending on social media along with suspicious file download attempts.
The outage affected third-party services that depend on OpenAI infrastructure, and similar issues have been reported on other AI platforms such as Claude, Grok, and Gemini.

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Why It Matters

OpenAI's ChatGPT service is an artificial intelligence chatbot with a wide user base and infrastructure used by many third-party applications and services.

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During this outage, where millions of users could not access, visitors to OpenAI's chat bot encountered unusual errors. While some users reported that the site was trying to download a suspicious or unusual file in the background, this abnormal situation in the system caused wide repercussions on social media. The outage wasn't just limited to ChatGPT; Many third-party websites, applications and digital services that depend on the OpenAI infrastructure also malfunctioned.

Users also reported outages on Claude and Grok, while problems were also reported on Google's Gemini service.

Open Questions

What's the technical reason for the cut?
It's unknown exactly when services will return to normal.
The extent of the impact on third-party services has not been clearly stated.