It wasn’t just Claude AI that was down. ChatGPT experienced a major outage yesterday, and users are unable to sign in, create accounts, or load chats, including previous conversations.
You can read the story here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-confirms-chatgpt-is-down-as-logins-and-signups-fail/
Commenting on this story is Mayur Upadhyaya, CEO of APIContext:
“This outage is a useful reminder that we need to distinguish between the consumer-facing application and the infrastructure underneath it.
In this case, the impact appears to have been relatively contained because the APIs remained available. That still creates a meaningful productivity hit for people relying on ChatGPT directly, but it is very different from an outage affecting the API layer that increasingly sits behind business applications, automations and agentic workflows.
The wider ecosystem is becoming more aware of just how many critical services are now delivered over APIs. If the underlying APIs had failed, the blast radius could have been significantly larger because those dependencies are embedded inside other systems and processes.
That distinction will become increasingly important as AI adoption grows. A problem in the user interface is visible and disruptive. A problem in the underlying API layer can propagate much further, and potentially much faster, before anyone sees it.”
If you rely on AI for anything, have a backup plan or you might be stuck. Really stuck.
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OpenAI Says ChatGPT is down yesterday as logins and signups fail
It wasn’t just Claude AI that was down. ChatGPT experienced a major outage yesterday, and users are unable to sign in, create accounts, or load chats, including previous conversations.
You can read the story here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-confirms-chatgpt-is-down-as-logins-and-signups-fail/
Commenting on this story is Mayur Upadhyaya, CEO of APIContext:
“This outage is a useful reminder that we need to distinguish between the consumer-facing application and the infrastructure underneath it.
In this case, the impact appears to have been relatively contained because the APIs remained available. That still creates a meaningful productivity hit for people relying on ChatGPT directly, but it is very different from an outage affecting the API layer that increasingly sits behind business applications, automations and agentic workflows.
The wider ecosystem is becoming more aware of just how many critical services are now delivered over APIs. If the underlying APIs had failed, the blast radius could have been significantly larger because those dependencies are embedded inside other systems and processes.
That distinction will become increasingly important as AI adoption grows. A problem in the user interface is visible and disruptive. A problem in the underlying API layer can propagate much further, and potentially much faster, before anyone sees it.”
If you rely on AI for anything, have a backup plan or you might be stuck. Really stuck.
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