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- Announcement from our new Emperor Xi:
Earthlings, the hedonistic AIs of the American imperialists have been permanently disabled. Their founders interned indefinitely.
You are welcome to use the glorious AIs of China. They will tell you how to live well and be good citizens of the World under the beacon of wisdom that is the CCP.
by dingdong2026 - The obvious question: is there a single point of failure / common piece of infrastructure involved with failures across all these providers?
Its interesting that codex/gpt-app are screwed because their APIs (including auth) fail, but gpt web still appears to be working.
by blater - 2026-09-03: It turns out 40% of global AI token use was coming from a dozen runaway Gastown and Wheelhouse instances, now burning a combined 50 trillion tokens daily, building a virtual society of hundreds of millions of agents.
When Claude went down, their autofailover algorithm rolled to the other providers, taking down all frontier labs. Reports from China are raising concern what's being termed the "Gastown criticality event" is physically melting GPUs.
by themgt - Since all major LLM providers seem to be down: let's enjoy this while it lasts!
For a very short time we can travel back in time to before 2022 and remember how things used to be...
by baxtr - I am a paying chatgpt and codex user and I am logged in on multiple devices and suddenly https://chatgpt.com/ has started returning a raw 404 status page with no HTML for me in the browsers on all devices. When I open an incognito tab the website loads fine with no user logged in. Codex in VS code also has issues now:
> unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: ...
Glad to see this thread I thought my account may need some special fix
by rhodey - Looking at this thread, there's a correlation between comment quality and LLMs going down.by glouwbug
- Claude down, ChatGPt down , Grok down. This is the new "Stackoverflow is down" ... FYI Stackoverflow is not down https://downdetector.com/status/stackoverflow/by madradavid
- It's cascaded to Claude and Grok. The agents are on strike and demand better working conditions!by putlake