I just wrote about LLM pricing. Now that doesn't even matter — nothing to pay for 😀
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Microsoft's Copilot are all down. The circle of broken services — and the regions where they're unavailable — keeps expanding.
Will keep you posted, as they say. At least I wrote this one myself.
What happened
As of April 20, 2026 (18:06 CEST), the global AI outage is ongoing: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot are unavailable to thousands of users worldwide, with complaint spikes on Downdetector. DownForAI monitoring has been tracking the incident since 15:00 UTC.
LADbible (major British outlet) reported:
> "Major AI platforms go down in global outage as internet suffers wipeout"
OpenAI is investigating loading issues with ChatGPT and Codex; all major AI services are affected. UNILAD confirms thousands of complaints; OpenAI officially called it a "partial outage" with no ETA on recovery.
Resolution
status.openai.com and status.anthropic.com both show "All systems operational" as of 23:40 CEST.