Have you used these tools at all? It's incredibly obvious. It was obvious for weeks during August, where several people posted about degradation on r/ClaudeAI ...

There's a thousand and one reasons why a company valued in the billions, with the eyes of the world watching, would not be completely honest in their public response.

Google Gemini had an ongoing issue for at least 3 weeks with empty responses and the thinking context filled with absolute nonsense. It was even acknowledged on social media by their head of product but no official communication at all. No status page updates, nada. Apparently it was even a known issue for much longer but they only started fixing it after a config change made the problem much more prevalent.