Updated
Updated · Tom's Guide · Jun 10
Google Partially Resolves Gemini Outage After 9 Hours as Reports Fall From 2,000
Updated
Updated · Tom's Guide · Jun 10

Google Partially Resolves Gemini Outage After 9 Hours as Reports Fall From 2,000

3 articles · Updated · Tom's Guide · Jun 10

Summary

  • Google marked the Gemini outage "partially resolved" after engineers applied mitigations, with some users reporting the chatbot is working again while others still face failures.
  • Downdetector reports fell to about 200 after peaking near 2,000 earlier in the day, suggesting recovery is underway but not yet complete.
  • Google said it has no ETA for full restoration and is still investigating the root cause behind errors including 1076 and 1099.
  • The disruption began around 6:10 a.m. ET and lasted more than nine hours, hitting users in the U.S. and U.K. across web and app access.

Insights

Why did telling Gemini a prompt was for the president temporarily fix its massive outage?
Was Gemini's global crash caused by its own memory catastrophically overflowing?
After this failure, is the promise of a reliable 24/7 personal AI agent already dead?