Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

#1

Post by halcdev » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 3:07 PM UTC

https://status.openai.com

https://status.claude.com

https://status.x.ai

ChatGPT outage – Resolved - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550614 (315 comments)

Claude outage – Resolved - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549676 (146 comments)

Grok outage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551589 (142 comments)

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

#2

Post by onesandofgrain » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 2:50 PM UTC

I guess back to pen and paper then

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

#3

Post by nurettin » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 2:50 PM UTC

Same here

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

#4

Post by tducret » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 2:51 PM UTC

Strangely, it's currently not reported on both https://status.openai.com/ and https://updog.ai/status/openai. Any better source (other than HN)?

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

#5

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 2:51 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

#6

Post by postalcoder » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 2:51 PM UTC

Astra is being released today. Probably not a coincidence.

edit: actually, you cannot even log into your OpenAI developer account. Something's wrong.

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

#7

Post by reinhash » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 2:52 PM UTC

tducret wrote: post #4

Strangely, it's currently not reported on both https://status.openai.com/ and https://updog.ai/status/openai . Any better source (other than HN)?

I see it reported now. Strange this is down and claude at the same time

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

#8

Post by indigodaddy » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 2:52 PM UTC

chatgpt.com doesn't even load. Hope they've got a backup somewhere, teehee

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

#9

Post by onesandofgrain » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 2:52 PM UTC

tducret wrote: post #4

Strangely, it's currently not reported on both https://status.openai.com/ and https://updog.ai/status/openai . Any better source (other than HN)?

unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: a355....

In codex app and chat.com gives 404

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

#10

Post by onesandofgrain » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 2:52 PM UTC

reinhash wrote: post #7

tducret wrote: post #4

Strangely, it's currently not reported on both https://status.openai.com/ and https://updog.ai/status/openai . Any better source (other than HN)?

I see it reported now. Strange this is down and claude at the same time

Maybe coreweave, aws, spacex datacenters are down, who knows..