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Major OpenAI Outage Leaves ChatGPT and Other Services Unavailable

From Adevărul · () Romanian

Translated from Romanian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • ChatGPT suffered a major outage on Thursday, Sept. 3, preventing many users from accessing the chatbot normally.
  • The disruption also affected OpenAI’s Codex tool and some third-party services that rely on OpenAI technology.
  • OpenAI said it had identified a possible fix, but later reported that its services were still operating with degraded performance.

ChatGPT suffered a major outage on Thursday, Sept. 3, leaving many users unable to access OpenAI’s chatbot normally. Some users reported unusual behavior, including the website attempting to download an unexpected file.

The disruption also affected Codex, OpenAI’s programming tool built around ChatGPT. The effects varied from a complete inability to use the chatbot to unexpected platform behavior. Other applications that use OpenAI’s infrastructure and technology for artificial intelligence features also encountered difficulties.

OpenAI said it was aware of the incident and had identified a possible solution. The company initially said it was checking whether the measures had worked. It later reported that its services continued to operate with degraded performance.

Users also reported problems with Anthropic’s Claude and Grok, the artificial intelligence service on X. Those disruptions appeared more limited, with the chatbots continuing to work for some users.

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Originally published by Adevărul in Romanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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