Google Gemini AI assistant experiences widespread outage

Google's Gemini AI assistant experienced a widespread service disruption on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, leaving users in the United States and United Kingdom unable to access the chatbot. The outage began around 6:10 a.m. Eastern Time and persisted for hours, generating a significant spike in user reports.

Affected users encountered error messages, primarily "Error 1076" and "Error 1099," when attempting to use the service. Reports indicated the problems affected both the web and mobile app versions of Gemini, and were not limited to specific accounts or devices. The issue tracker DownDetector recorded over 1,000 user reports at the peak of the disruption, with major U.S. cities like New York, San Francisco, and Chicago showing high concentrations of problems.

Despite the volume of user complaints, Google's official Workspace Dashboard and Gemini status page continued to display that all systems were operational for much of the morning, indicating the company had not immediately acknowledged a widespread issue. The company had not issued an official statement regarding the cause of the outage or a timeline for a full resolution by the time reports were filed.