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Updated · Yahoo Finance UK · Sep 3
OpenAI Says ChatGPT Outage Persists as Codex Also Suffers Degraded Performance
Updated
Updated · Yahoo Finance UK · Sep 3

OpenAI Says ChatGPT Outage Persists as Codex Also Suffers Degraded Performance

3 articles · Updated · Yahoo Finance UK · Sep 3

Summary

  • OpenAI said ChatGPT was still suffering degraded performance after a major outage that took the chatbot offline and disrupted access for users.
  • Users reported erratic behavior during the incident, including the site trying to download an unusual file, while OpenAI said it had identified a fix and was checking whether it worked.
  • Codex, OpenAI’s programming tool built around ChatGPT, was also affected, extending the disruption beyond the main chatbot to apps and sites that rely on OpenAI features.
  • Claude and Grok users also reported issues, but those problems appeared narrower than ChatGPT’s, and the cause of the near-simultaneous disruptions across major AI chatbots remained unclear.

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