OpenAI and Anthropic had outages on the same day, and neither is saying why

Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages

On September 3, OpenAI and Anthropic went down almost simultaneously. ChatGPT and API were out for about 3 hours; Claude had intermittent failures. Both status pages only said 'service unavailable' with no technical details. Wired asked both companies and got no explanation. The post doesn't disclose whether this was shared infra, an attack, or coincidence—only the outage duration and the silence are confirmed.

Why it matters: Simultaneous outages at OpenAI and Anthropic with zero explanation is anomalous enough for featured. But the post only has duration and silence — no root cause, so knowledge density is low, capping the score at 78.