ChatGPT, Claude and Grok down at once: your failover plan
On 3 September 2026, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all suffered outages on the same afternoon, each from an independent cause: a routing error at OpenAI, an infrastructure issue at Anthropic and a compute-centre failure behind Grok. A runtime failover plan for Azure teams: Foundry's model router with automatic fallback, APIM's AI gateway and circuit breaker, what redundancy really costs, and the Data Zone and DORA constraints that shape it.
OpenAI cuts off Cursor: your model exit plan on Azure
OpenAI will stop supplying models to Cursor on 12 November 2026, invoking a change-of-control clause after SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition, and Cursor absorbed it because OpenAI carried only 5 percent of its traffic. For Azure buyers the lesson is a model exit plan: what Foundry's lifecycle policy and Microsoft's OpenAI licence actually guarantee, where Claude's EU Data Zone gap bites, the cost of a warm second source, and what DORA already requires.
DORA One Year In: Swedish Fintech Engineering Lessons
One year after the Digital Operational Resilience Act entered into force for financial-sector firms on 17 January 2025, this is what Swedish fintech engineering teams actually learned about ICT risk, incident reporting, TLPT, and the third-party register.