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GitHub Copilot outage — August 31, 2026

On August 31, 2026, GitHub Copilot had a reported incident on GitHub's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.

Elevated rate of errors for OpenAI models provided by Copilot

minor

Started: Aug 31, 5:15 AM EDT
Resolved: —
Duration: not marked resolved

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

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