ChatGPT and Gemini hit by global outages

ChatGPT and Google Gemini were hit by widespread outages on December 2, blocking thousands of users from accessing the rival AI chatbots. OpenAI blamed a “routing misconfiguration” for two ChatGPT disruption waves, while Google Gemini saw connectivity issues across several countries. The incidents underscore the reliability strain on fast-growing AI platforms serving hundreds of millions of users.