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AI service outage history

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Friday, September 25

1 item

Thursday, September 24

2 items
Operational incident · resolved Security clearly official source

SMS verification incident in NGC Build service

NVIDIA reports an SMS verification outage in the NGC Build service since 23 September in China. The service is working on restoring it. Readers outside China are not affected.

NVIDIA NGC Status — incident history Original source ↗

Tuesday, September 22

2 items
Operational incident · ongoing Security clearly official source

Outage of the xAI API service and Grok services resolved

An outage of the API from xAI and the Grok.com and Grok Build services caused by a data center problem lasted approximately 25 minutes. The incident was resolved on 22 September 2026 at 01:28 GMT, and all services are operating normally again.

xAI Status — incident history Original source ↗

Saturday, September 19

1 item

Thursday, September 17

2 items
Operational incident · ongoing Other clearly official source

OpenAI resolved an incident that affected 11 API services

OpenAI confirmed that the incident involving increased API error rates had been resolved — it has now emerged that it affected 11 services (Chat Completions, Images, Sora, Embeddings and others), not just the initially reported Chat Completions.

OpenAI Status — incident history Details and sources →
Operational incident · resolved Other clearly official source

GitHub Copilot reported a 51-minute outage affecting OpenAI models due to an upstream provider error

GitHub Copilot reported elevated error rates on 17 September 2026 between 20:26 and 21:17 UTC (51 minutes) for GPT-5.6 Luna, Terra, Sol, GPT-5.3-Codex and GPT-6 Astra due to an error at the upstream provider. After the provider intervened, the service returned to normal.

GitHub Status — incident history Details and sources →

Wednesday, September 16

1 item

Friday, September 11

2 items
Operational incident · resolved Other clearly official source

Google resolved an error-related outage for the Gemini 3.1 Pro model in Gemini Web and Gemini App

Google resolved an incident involving increased error rates for the Gemini 3.1 Pro model in Gemini Web and Gemini App, which lasted on 11 September 2026 from 6:00 to 13:22 PDT. According to the company, the cause was a recent deployment, addressed through a code change.

Google Workspace Status — Gemini Details and sources →

Thursday, September 10

1 item
Operational incident · ongoing Other clearly official source

Partial outage of the Enterprise Voice API from xAI

The Enterprise Voice API from xAI experienced a partial outage that began at 07:03 GMT and was fully resolved by 07:15 GMT. The root cause was identified at 07:10 GMT. The incident lasted approximately 12 minutes, and all services are now fully operational.

xAI Status — incident history Original source ↗

Tuesday, September 8

1 item

Thursday, September 3

3 items
Operational incident · ongoing Other independently confirmed

Simultaneous outages affecting Claude, ChatGPT and Grok on 3 September 2026 – a common cause remains unconfirmed

The Grok outage on Android on 3 September 2026 was part of simultaneous morning outages affecting Claude, ChatGPT/Codex and Grok. SpaceX cited an outage at a data center in Memphis as the cause of the Grok outage, but Anthropic and OpenAI did not confirm a common cause.

xAI Status — incident history · and 1 more source Details and sources →
Operational incident · ongoing Security clearly official source

Grok app outage on iOS

The Grok service on iOS experienced an outage between 13:30 and 17:08 UTC on 3 September 2026. Normal operation was restored, but the cause was not disclosed.

xAI Status — incident history Original source ↗

Tuesday, September 1

1 item

Monday, August 31

2 items

Thursday, August 27

1 item

Thursday, August 20

2 items
Operational incident · resolved Security clearly official source

Brief outage of Google connectors in Claude resolved within 30 minutes

On 20 August 2026, between 18:32 and 19:01 UTC, Anthropic reported elevated error rates affecting Google connectors (Sheets, Docs, Slides, Chat) and custom Google integrations in Claude.ai. Core functionality was not affected, and the incident was resolved within 30 minutes.

Claude Status — incident history Details and sources →

Tuesday, August 18

2 items
Operational incident · ongoing Tools and apps clearly official source

Sites deployment incident resolved

The deployment issue affecting OpenAI's Sites service has been resolved. The Sites component is marked as Operational. The source does not specify the incident's duration or the number of affected users.

OpenAI Status — incident history Original source ↗