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On Downdetector.com, over 50,000 ChatGPT outages have been reported, following a spike in reports at 1:30 p.m. EST. With 3,463 additional reports of disruptions, the issue seems to continue past 3:30 p.m. EST. When a Forbes query was submitted to ChatGPT at 3:40 p.m. EST, the Chatbot failed to respond and instead displayed the message "Internal Server Error." In an update published at 4:05 p.m. EST, OpenAI stated that it was "continuing to work on a fix for this issue," which was brought on by an unidentified ISP.




The outage was criticized by users of X, which is home to Grok, ChatGPT's competitor chatbot, who joked that they were once again forced to use their own brains. According to TechCrunch, which pointed out that a nearly six-hour outage happened two weeks ago, Thursday's outage marks ChatGPT's second of the month. In the past, OpenAI has resolved outages a few hours after they started. ChatGPT might be patched by nightfall if the business adheres to its track record of fixes. $157 billion. After its $6.6 billion funding round in October, OpenAI is now worth that much.




Apart from the numerous outages that have occurred this month, ChatGPT also encountered technical issues in early June, going down for a few hours. According to CEO Sam Altman, ChatGPT is widely considered the most popular chatbot in the artificial intelligence market. As of early this month, the AI assistant had over 300 million weekly users sending over one billion messages to ChatGPT daily. Although the chatbot is free to use, customers who prefer not to use subscription tiers may find some limits.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT downtime - Key things to know.



 Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, is now accessible to X users for free. The move, which allows non-Premium subscribers to send up to 10 messages to Grok every two hours, was observed by a number of users on Friday. Grok, a "humorous AI assistant," was only accessible to Premium users when xAI first released it last year. Grok was given a text-to-image generating feature by xAI in August, and it proved to be able to generate some dubious-looking graphics.




Last month, TechCrunch revealed that Musk's xAI has begun testing a free Grok version in select areas. Expanding Grok's reach might help it compete with chatbots that are already free, such as Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Anthropic's Claude. According to a Wall Street Journal story, xAI, which collected $6 billion in its most recent funding round, is also thinking of releasing a stand-alone app for Grok, something that ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude already have.

Grok AI now available to all users.

 



The fifth Big Tech business to come under such scrutiny in recent years is Microsoft, which is the subject of a comprehensive antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. The agency is investigating Microsoft's AI offerings, cybersecurity services, and cloud and software licensing operations. The Verge verified the investigation with an individual with knowledge of the situation, who was given anonymity to talk to a confidential investigator after Bloomberg broke the story first.




Hundreds of pages of material are needed, and the request is the result of more than a year of unofficial conversations with Microsoft partners and rivals. One area of emphasis, according to the source, is how Microsoft bundles security and productivity tools with its Azure cloud. After multiple security problems affecting Microsoft's products, the FTC became more interested in the company's cloud business, especially since Microsoft is a major software provider to US government organizations. Microsoft and the FTC declined to comment.






"Microsoft's security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul, particularly in light of the company's centrality in the technology ecosystem," the federal Cyber Safety Review Board found earlier this year. "If you're faced with the tradeoff between security and another priority, your answer is clear: Do security," CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a message sent to staff members shortly after.






Microsoft would find itself in a familiar, albeit outdated, situation if the FTC filed a lawsuit against the business. In the late 1990s, the Department of Justice filed an anti-monopoly case against the corporation for combining its web browser with the Windows operating system. However, in recent years, Microsoft has largely avoided the same kind of antitrust scrutiny that has been placed on Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Google—all of which are battling government accusations of monopoly.

FTC Launches Antitrust Investigation Into Microsoft: What It Means for the Tech Giant

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