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OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini and X's Grok all experienced service disruptions at the same time on Thursday morning. OpenAI said it applied a mitigation and was monitoring recovery, while Anthropic reported issues limited to its Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 models. Downdetector data suggested OpenAI's problems were largely resolved as other services, including Google and Fortnite, continued to face issues.
Nvidia announced a deal to purchase open-source AI platform Hugging Face for roughly $13 billion, news that broke alongside the close of the G20's two-day Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill. At the summit, tech leaders including Nvidia's Jensen Huang and OpenAI's Sam Altman pushed governments to treat AI adoption as essential, while officials debated the costs and benefits of data center expansion.
Anthropic's threat intelligence chief Jacob Klein says foreign actors, particularly in China, are using illegal methods to extract outputs from its Claude models and train cheaper rival systems, a practice known as distillation. He named Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model as an example of technology he believes was built this way, describing an organized effort to evade Anthropic's account and access controls at scale.
OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude all began experiencing service disruptions within roughly a two-hour window on the same day. Users reported errors with chatbot conversations, logins, file uploads, voice mode, and other features, while Anthropic attributed its partial outage to an infrastructure issue and xAI said it was working to restore service. None of the companies have confirmed whether the outages are connected.
Anthropic confirmed an outage affecting multiple Claude models starting around 9:41 AM ET on September 3, 2026. Users of Mythos/Fable 5.1, Mythos/Fable 5, Opus 5, Opus 4.8, and Opus 4.6 experienced elevated errors and failed requests. Anthropic identified the cause and said it was working on a fix, with the issue still unresolved as of 10:49 AM ET.
Anthropic has updated Claude so it can perform computer-use tasks in the background while users keep working on the same machine. If Claude must take over the screen entirely, it asks permission once per session and waits until the user stops typing before grabbing keyboard control. The feature is in beta for Pro and Max subscribers on the Mac Claude app, enabled via Settings > General > Computer use.
Anthropic has released a web page at claude.com/check-content that lets users upload files to see if Claude was involved in creating them, using embedded content credentials under the C2PA standard. The checker currently supports only multimedia formats like JPEGs, GIFs, MP3s and MOVs, not text documents. A separate text-detection API exists but remains in private preview for select organizations.
At a G20 gathering, leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Palantir urged world leaders to embrace rapid AI development and avoid heavy regulatory constraints. The executives framed AI adoption as essential and non-negotiable, echoing the deregulatory stance favored by the Trump administration.
Anthropic has rolled out background computer use for Claude on macOS, available to Pro and Max subscribers through Claude Code and Claude Cowork. The feature lets Claude click, type, and operate applications on a user's desktop without taking over the visible cursor, so people can keep working on something else while it runs.
At the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick argued alongside Anthropic's Tom Brown that AI growth requires more data centers, launching a US effort to persuade global leaders to support them. The pitch comes even as roughly 3,400 data centers already operate in the US with 2,000 more planned, drawing bipartisan opposition over energy demands, water use and rising utility costs. The summit itself drew about 100 protesters objecting to appearances by Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Lutnick.
Anthropic notified users that a threat actor used common infostealer malware—including Vidar, LummaC2, StealC, RedLine, Acreed and Atomic Stealer—to steal browser session cookies and replay them into paid Claude accounts, bypassing login and two-factor checks entirely. The company signed out affected sessions, removed stored payment methods, and refunded fraudulent charges tied to the campaign.
Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, a successor to Gemini 3.7 Flash released just weeks earlier, which the company says performs more reasoning steps and iteratively calls tools on complex tasks. Input and output token pricing remains unchanged from the prior model, but Google cautions that the new model may consume more tokens overall to boost performance, particularly at higher effort settings. Early analysts note it beats rivals like Anthropic's models on coding, finance, and legal benchmarks, though it can end up pricier in practice due to higher token usage.