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Explosive AI agent demand is creating a compute crunch, forcing major companies like Anthropic and OpenAI to grapple with service outages and GPU shortages.
THE DECODER · April 13, 2026
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- •Anthropic is experiencing service outages due to insufficient compute capacity to meet surging demand for AI agents
- •OpenAI announced the discontinuation of Sora, its video generation model, amid compute constraints
- •GPU prices have spiked nearly 50 percent, reflecting acute scarcity in the market for AI computing hardware
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