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Resource Exhaustion Errors on Google AI Models
Minor
March 18, 2026 - Started 8 days ago
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We are currently experiencing increased error rates due to resource exhaustion impacting the Google AI models used in our platform.
As a result, some AI-powered features may show intermittent failures or degraded performance.
Our team is actively working with the Google team to investigate and resolve the issue at the earliest. This seems to be related to upstream capacity limitations.
We will continue to share updates as more information becomes available.
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8 days ago - at 03/18/2026 11:05AM
We are currently experiencing increased error rates due to resource exhaustion impacting the Google AI models used in our platform.
As a result, some AI-powered features may show intermittent failures or degraded performance.
Our team is actively working with the Google team to investigate and resolve the issue at the earliest. This seems to be related to upstream capacity limitations.
We will continue to share updates as more information becomes available.
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