Outage recap · OpenAI

ChatGPT outage — August 14, 2026

On August 14, 2026, ChatGPT had a reported incident on OpenAI's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.

Unexpected GPT-5.6 Terra responses

minor

Started: Aug 14, 6:22 PM EDT
Resolved: —
Duration: not marked resolved

As reported by OpenAI's official status page (status: identified). 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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