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AI, Mobile & Apps

ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude Suffered Simultaneous Outages on September 3, 2026

On Sept. 3, 2026, ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude suffered near-simultaneous outages, cutting off access including logins and features like file uploads, voice mode, and image generation. OpenAI said errors rose around 11AM ET and noted a mitigation with “degraded performance” while teasing Astra; Anthropic blamed an “infrastructure issue” from ~10:30AM ET (eventually Opus 4.8/5), and Grok’s X app showed “model is overloaded.”

AI, Security & Privacy

Apple Accuses OpenAI of Destroying Evidence in Trade Secrets Lawsuit

Apple’s Sept. 2026 motion seeks expedited discovery, alleging OpenAI is destroying trade-secret evidence in its lawsuit over ex-employee Chang Liu. Apple says OpenAI handed over Liu’s company MacBook on Aug. 21 and, after inspection, found he downloaded and used a confidential Apple circuit schematic; OpenAI disputes and calls it “a mess of Apple’s own making.”

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