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Google Gemini hits errors for many users during rare four-model outage

September 3, 2026 at 19:49 EDT

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Google's Gemini assistant returned errors for many users on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026, during a rare stretch of overlapping downtime that also struck OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok. Google did not post a matching incident on its public status dashboards.

Sept. 3, 2026 · Google Gemini

Gemini stumbles as four AIs fail together

Many users hit errors on Google Gemini during a rare overlapping outage with ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok. Google posted no public incident.

412

Peak user reports

Reports before spike

30 min

Likely API outage window

None

Official Google incident

User reports: 23 to 412

About an 18× jump from the pre-spike baseline to the morning peak.

Before ~10:30 a.m. ET

412

Peak just after 11 a.m. ET

Where users reported trouble

Share of Gemini problem reports after the spike.

48%

AI generation

28%

App

16%

Website

What users saw

Prompt errors, Flash models that would not chat, and pages that failed to load — but not every user was hit.

What Google showed

Workspace status stayed clear. Trackers recorded unacknowledged Gemini errors, including code 1096.

Same morning, four labs

Gemini's spike was real, but smaller than the hits on ChatGPT and Grok.

ChatGPT

Peak above 36,000 reports

Grok

Fewer than 10 to 1,365 reports

Claude

Partial outage 9:23 a.m.–12:16 p.m. ET

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