"Simultaneous Outage Hits ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity"

On Tuesday morning, major AI chatbots ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity experienced simultaneous outages, with ChatGPT being down for several hours. The issues, which may have been due to infrastructure problems or high traffic, were resolved later in the day. Google’s Gemini also faced brief disruptions. The outages coincided with a zero-day spam attack on TikTok affecting high-profile accounts.