The Silicon Protocol: When Your LLM API Goes Down and Mission-Critical Systems Stop (2026)
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AM: OpenAI outage begins. PM: 340 hospitals offline. AM next day: Recovery after 15 hours. Trading halted, benefits queued, patient care degraded. One API failure, three industries stopped. June 10, 2025: OpenAI’s 15-hour outage took down clinical AI at 340 hospitals simultaneously. Emergency departments reverted to paper triage mid-shift. Average triage time: 18 minutes → 47 minutes. Hospitals with rule-based fallbacks maintained 22-minute triage - physicians barely noticed AI was down.