Tech news picked on 2026-09-05
Grok and Claude Stopped at the Same Time, Borrowing Compute from the Same Company
- Around 6:30 a.m. Pacific Time on September 3, Grok and Claude stopped almost simultaneously.
- SpaceX identified an outage at the Memphis compute center as the cause and apologized to its compute partners; Anthropic had contracted this year to borrow compute from Musk's AI company.
- They believed splitting vendors ensured redundancy, but the GPUs were actually located in the same building.
- It's time to look into lease chains that aren't written in contracts.
From September 11, Personal Information Notification Obligations Begin Before Confirming a Leak
- The amended Personal Information Protection Act, effective September 11, adds forgery, alteration, and damage to the notification targets, and requires alerts even at the possibility stage before confirming a leak.
- The enforcement ordinance setting the activation conditions for the 72-hour deadline has only completed its legislative notice stage.
- The real challenge for small teams lies more in record keeping than in fines.
- Start by developing the habit of recording who and when viewed unfamiliar login alerts accumulating in Slack.