Elevated Errors for Thinking mode in ChatGPT
minor- Started
- Aug 20, 9:56 AM EDT
- Resolved
- —
- Duration
- not marked resolved
As reported by OpenAI's official status page (status: monitoring). We report the vendor's own words, never an inferred cause.
Outage recap · OpenAI
ChatGPT outage — August 20, 2026
On August 20, 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 Codex API authentication errors
minor- Started
- Aug 20, 12:58 PM EDT
- Resolved
- —
- Duration
- not marked resolved
As reported by OpenAI's official status page (status: monitoring). 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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