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Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI chatbots suffered rare outages Thursday morning. SpaceX attributed Grok's issues to an outage at its Memphis compute center. OpenAI cited a routing error starting at 7:43 am PT, resolved by 8:17 am PT. Anthropic resolved its partial outage by 9:16 am PT.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its most intelligent model, excelling in cybersecurity and software engineering. Anthropic updated Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, Meta launched Muse Spark 1.3, and Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber, all focusing on agentic workflows.
Snowflake's latest results indicate enterprises increasingly want Anthropic as a buffer layer. The data cloud company's performance reflects growing customer interest in integrating Anthropic models within its platform for enhanced AI capabilities.
OpenAI priced GPT-6 Astra at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, matching Anthropic's pricing for Claude Fable 5.1. The model, part of the Hugging Face breach, will be released with new safeguards.
OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google AI models experienced overlapping service interruptions Thursday morning. Anthropic reported a partial outage with elevated errors on Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5 at 9:23 am, deployed a fix, and resolved the issue by 12:16 pm.
Anthropic PBC launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, its most capable large language models to date. The launch follows a $35 billion cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda for a 350-megawatt Hut 8 Texas data center, plus a $45 billion Nscale agreement.
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