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Massive outage of artificial intelligence chatbots affects key platforms

ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Copilot, and Gemini have been experiencing significant issues for hours.

3 September 2026Tagblick Newsdesk

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Several artificial intelligence chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Copilot, and Gemini, have faced operational issues worldwide, according to user reports on various platforms.

Users have reported difficulties accessing these applications and errors in loading their services, with aggregated data from DownDetector confirming the extent of the outage.

Despite the inconveniences, ChatGPT was the first of these platforms to resume normal operations, as reported by El Mundo.

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