OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Slack, and Google Docs all appear down at the same time
mertdumenci · x · 2026-09-04
The author reports that OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Slack, and Google Docs are all down simultaneously—an extremely unusual simultaneous outage across major AI and productivity services, sparking speculation about shared upstream dependencies.
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