> Or is the price drop an attempt to cover up bad news about the outage with news about the price drop?

This makes no sense. No way a global outage will get less coverage than the price drop.

Also the earliest sign of price drop is this tweet 20 hrs ago (https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1932248668469445002), which is earlier than the earliest outage reports 13hrs ago on https://downdetector.com/status/openai/