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OpenAI Restores ChatGPT After Global Outage

OpenAI restored nearly all services by the evening with voice mode still showing elevated error rates, highlighting how deeply users depend on its AI tools.

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Overview

  • The outage began around 3 a.m. ET on June 10, causing elevated error rates and latency across ChatGPT, Sora and OpenAI’s APIs.
  • By 9:07 a.m. ET, OpenAI’s status page reported that engineers had identified the root cause and were working on a fix.
  • Services were declared fully restored by 6:30 p.m. ET, with only ChatGPT’s voice mode continuing to exhibit elevated error rates.
  • Downdetector logged thousands of user reports worldwide, with India and the United States recording the highest volumes of disruptions.
  • Users turned to social media to express frustration and share memes, underscoring ChatGPT’s integration into daily workflows and productivity tasks.