A major internet disruption unfolded on Tuesday morning after a widespread Cloudflare outage caused several popular services to go down or respond sluggishly. Users experienced issues across ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, X and dozens of other platforms, all of which rely on Cloudflare’s infrastructure to stay online.

Cloudflare acknowledged the problem on its status page shortly after 8 a.m. ET, confirming that the incident had been identified and a fix was being deployed. Within two hours, the company announced that the issue had been resolved and services were recovering, although monitoring would continue. Advertisement

In a post on X, Cloudflare chief technology officer Dane Knecht explained that the root cause was a “latent bug” that had silently existed within one of the firm’s intern

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