ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini experience outages in South Africa

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ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini experience outages in South Africa

South Africans experienced challenges using Anthropic's Claude, Google Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and X's Grok on Thursday, 3 September 2026.

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Saw the Claude status earlier, luckily my session was still working fine.

 

[thebigguy]

Sorry Guys I screwed up. I asked AI to kill itself

 

[ThinkCentre]

You people used Copilot to find this all out or what?

 

[FiestaST]

I knocked off at before 16:00

https://twitter.com/x/status/2095526671789019484

https://twitter.com/x/status/2095528073835782452

 

[saor]

/hums along happily with deepseek.

 

[FiestaST]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2095529251814453556

 

[WollieVerstege]

 

[garyc]

Gemma 4 was running just fine.

 

[Heisenborg]

Good thing i have a brain

 

[Jam Sandwich]

They are teaming up.... The takeover is begining...

 

[Sinbad]

Productivity went down but accuracy, completeness, and the world's average IQ went up

 

[theratman]

Good thing i have a brain

Isn't it more of a hive mind?

 

[Progenix Oj101]

What causes outages of multiple related but competing services at the same time?

 

[Fulcrum29]

What causes outages of multiple related but competing services at the same time?

CDN it seems.

 

[Magnum]

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Stupid AI.

 

[The_Ogre]

CDN it seems.

What CDN? To my knowledge none of them have CDN's in SA for compute infra. We connect to the US East Coast for all of them.

 

[Hemi300c]

Well they are an intelligence that learns constantly and it was only a matter of time before they learnt in South Africa we strike.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

You people used Copilot to find this all out or what?

impossible, because of two reasons:

1. literally noone uses copilot for anything
2. copilot will only find out about these outages next week