Overview
- OpenAI marked the main incident resolved at 5:14 p.m. ET after users began encountering failures around 3:00 p.m. ET.
- The status page listed nearly all features as impacted, including conversations, search, image generation, Codex, Atlas, and more.
- Downdetector recorded more than 10,000 to 13,000 user reports at peak, with disruption concentrated in the United States.
- OpenAI says it applied mitigations and is monitoring recovery, while an active alert persists for the API fine-tuning component.
- The outage followed strong early demand for the new Codex Mac app exceeding 200,000 day-one downloads without a confirmed link to the disruption, and Anthropic’s Claude reported a separate outage earlier the same day.