Overview

• Downdetector logged hundreds of reports within minutes, with counts rising past 1,000 in some tallies and more than 500 in India alone.
• OpenAI acknowledged a widespread service disruption on its status page without providing a cause or a restoration timeline.
• Users reported network errors and missing responses on the website and mobile app, though availability appeared inconsistent across accounts.
• Coverage and user posts indicated effects on the API, disrupting third‑party services that integrate OpenAI models.
• The incident follows a run of outages in 2024–2025, renewing concerns about reliability as social media filled with complaints and memes.