ChatGPT, Claude and Grok experienced outages at the same time Thursday, while some Gemini users also reported problems. So far, there is no confirmed evidence the outages had the same cause. But as AI becomes part of everyday work and business, the disruption raises a bigger question: what happens when the tools we depend on suddenly stop working?

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