Outage recap · OpenAI

ChatGPT outage — June 3, 2026

On June 3, 2026, ChatGPT had 2 reported incidents on OpenAI's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.

Elevated error rates on Codex, ChatGPT and Responses API

major
Started
Jun 3, 12:58 AM EDT
Resolved
Jun 3, 7:09 AM EDT
Duration
6h 11m

As reported by OpenAI's official status page (status: resolved). We report the vendor's own words, never an inferred cause.

Increased latency for Codex compaction for a subset of users

minor
Started
Jun 3, 10:57 PM EDT
Resolved
Jun 4, 12:37 AM EDT
Duration
1h 40m

As reported by OpenAI's official status page (status: resolved). We report the vendor's own words, never an inferred cause.

The AI cascade

ChatGPT depends on OpenAI. When that upstream has an incident, it doesn't hit ChatGPT alone — these AI tools share the dependency and can degrade at the same time:

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