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ChatGPT Down: OpenAI Admits Outage Means It’s ‘Experiencing Issues’

Over 10,000 users faced elevated error rates and disruptions across ChatGPT features including search, image generation, and Codex during a partial outage this afternoon.

  • This afternoon, ChatGPT users began experiencing issues around 3:00 p.m. Eastern, with over 10,000 reported cases as of 3:15 p.m., Down Detector recorded.
  • OpenAI launched the Codex app for Mac yesterday, which Sam Altman said achieved over 200,000 day one downloads, while Apple introduced an Xcode update adding agentic coding support for Codex and Claude.
  • Status-Page posts showed the outage affected conversations, search, image generation, Codex, Atlas, while Down Detector logged more than 12,000 reports and Anthropic's Claude had elevated API error rates.
  • OpenAI marked the issue resolved at 5:14PM ET, while an active status alert remained, and posted that `elevated error rates` were occurring for ChatGPT and Platform users.
  • OpenAI said it will keep users updated, and the outage affected the fine-tuning component of the API, disrupting developer workflows.
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Folha de S.Paulo broke the news in São Paulo, Brazil on Tuesday, February 3, 2026.
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