Google, OpenAI, Spotify, Amazon Web Services and OpenAI were all down on Thursday after a wide-spread tech outage. Tens of thousands of users reported issues on Downdector.com, a website that tracks outages. A large number of sites appear to be impacted, with reports ticking up in the tens of thousands around 2 p.m EST.

Amazon Web Services, Google, OpenAI and Spotify were down on Thursday after a widespread technology outage. A large number of platforms appear to have been impacted, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues on Downdetector.

Spotify, in particular, has seen over 40,000 user-submitted outage reports, highlighting the scale of the issue. Many users say they cannot access playlists, stream music, or even open the app. Other affected services,

The latest version of OpenAI’s most intelligent AI model, o3-pro, outperforms previous models on benchmarks for math, science, and coding.

New model and bold pricing strategy aim to cement OpenAI’s lead, but enterprises must navigate integration and governance challenges to unlock full potential, analysts say.

OpenAI has a new reasoning model called o3-pro that the company says is its most intelligent yet. On Tuesday the ChatGPT maker announced o3-pro on X, sharing some details on its improvement over o3. OpenAI highlighted better performance in "science,