Charles Hoskinson Has a Theory for AI Outage Affecting ChatGPT, Claude and Grok

ChatGPT outage reports jumped from 5,000 to more than 22,000 in 10 minutes on Thursday morning. Claude, Grok and coding tool Cursor were already broken.

Three rival labs failed inside roughly 90 minutes, and no cloud provider declared a fault. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says it looked like a nation state, naming Gemini as the only exception as it uses its own TPUs.

How the AI Outage Happened

Grok and Claude users began reporting errors near 9 a.m. Eastern Time (ET). ChatGPT complaints spiked 90 minutes later, Downdetector data showed.

OpenAI was the only lab to confirm anything, logging elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex, its coding agent.

Anthropic users hit a capacity wall instead.

"Due to unexpected capacity constraints, Claude is unable to respond to your message. Try again soon," read Claude in-app error message.

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