OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down worldwide
Summary
ChatGPT experienced a worldwide outage starting around 5 AM ET that prevented users from loading their chats and sending messages, with errors about too many concurrent requests. The outage also affected OpenAI's coding platform Codex and multiple API endpoints (backend tools that other software uses to communicate with OpenAI's services). OpenAI acknowledged the issue and stated it had applied a fix, though problems persisted during testing at the time of reporting.
Solution / Mitigation
OpenAI says it has applied a fix and is monitoring the situation, though the source notes that issues continued to occur during testing.
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Original source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-confirms-chatgpt-is-down-worldwide/
First tracked: July 25, 2026 at 08:01 AM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 92%