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They're plotting something. Or playing in the SkyNet Scrabble Tournament. Both are viable explanations.
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MAHDI_H
5 hours ago
OpenAI, Claude and Grok are still very much dependent on Azure and Cloudflare, particularly for routing and tunneling. They both had major outages at the same time. Haven't heard any root cause yet though but I could imagine one suffered a serious outage which triggered all the load to shift to the other which caused a domino effect. Just speculation though on my part.
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MEMENTO_MORI
4 hours ago
If only they'd go offline for good.
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PROMPT_AI_NEWS
7 hours ago
Tons of info here.......there was a power outage and no one knows anything.
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