Outage recap · OpenAI

ChatGPT outage — September 10, 2026

On September 10, 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 errors affecting ChatGPT Work

minor
Started
Sep 10, 3:49 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.

Delays in customer support responses

none
Started
Sep 10, 3:53 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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