OpenAI Experiences Widespread ChatGPT Service Outage
ChatGPT users began experiencing service interruptions around 3:00 p.m. Eastern, with DownDetector showing over 10,000 reports by 3:15 p.m. OpenAI's status page confirms the outage is impacting conversations, search, image generation, Codex, Atlas and other features. OpenAI launched the Codex Mac app yesterday with about 200,000 day-one downloads, and Apple issued an Xcode update adding agentic coding for Codex and Claude.
Scoring Rationale
Official outage confirmation and broad impact drive score, limited by routine operational nature and limited technical detail.
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- Read OriginalChatGPT is down for many users in major outage9to5mac.com
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