Outage recap · OpenAI

ChatGPT outage — September 4, 2026

On September 4, 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.

Users in APAC region may face increased error in ChatGPT, Work, image generation, File upload, Voic, and Codex Cloud.

minor

Started: Sep 4, 3:00 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.

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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