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ChatGPT and Codex are both currently experiencing outages

2026-04-20 | original
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Why This Matters

The outages affecting ChatGPT and Codex highlight the vulnerabilities in AI service infrastructure, impacting developers and users relying on these tools for productivity and innovation. Such disruptions underscore the importance of robust system resilience and contingency planning in the rapidly growing AI industry.

Key Takeaways

OpenAI has confirmed that ChatGPT and Codex are both experiencing issues, with many users unable to load the services. Here are the latest details.

OpenAI confirms ongoing issues with ChatGPT, Codex

Per Downdetector, OpenAI began experiencing partial outages between 10 and 10:30 a.m. ET.

OpenAI’s system status page confirms the ongoing issues.

Both ChatGPT and Codex are affected, with some users unable to log in, search, use voice mode, and other wide-ranging issues.

The official status update from OpenAI says, “Users unable to load ChatGPT and Codex.” The company is currently investigating the issues and has no further update yet.

OpenAI’s first update happened at 10:35 a.m. saying it was investigating the issue. At 11:13 a.m. another update was posted saying they are still investigating.

We’ll keep you posted on any official updates or resolutions to the current outages.

Are you experiencing issues using ChatGPT or Codex? Let us know in the comments.

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