Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
Summary
WIRED reports simultaneous outages across OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, with causes still unclear. The piece highlights routing errors, compute-center outages, and the lack of a disclosed shared cause, underscoring the fragility of AI service infrastructure. For SMBs using AI services, it underscores the importance of redundancy and monitoring third-party dependencies.