According to the official status update from the affected company, a significant outage at their main GPU provider on June 2 at 11:30 AM PST led to application downtime, highlighting the critical dependency of AI-driven services on third-party GPU infrastructure. The company’s team is actively working to restore normal operations and will closely monitor system performance as traffic and compute resources are ramped up. This incident underscores the importance of robust risk management, backup strategies, and diversified compute sourcing for AI businesses reliant on cloud GPU providers (source: company status update, June 2, 2024).