GoKawiilOpenAI's ChatGPT Work and Microsoft Exchange Online hit by separate outages
OpenAI reported elevated errors and latency on ChatGPT Work, its enterprise AI agent, for about three hours on Monday, while Microsoft separately confirmed degraded functionality across Exchange Online. Downdetector logged over 1,100 reports for OpenAI products and nearly 4,600 for Microsoft Outlook around 2:24 p.m. ET, though the companies gave no indication the two incidents were related.
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The simultaneous disruptions highlight how deeply enterprise workflows now depend on both legacy productivity tools and newer AI agents, meaning even unrelated outages can compound to stall business operations broadly. It also underscores the increasingly complex dynamic between Microsoft and OpenAI, once tightly bound by a $13 billion investment but now rivals in enterprise AI products like ChatGPT Work and Copilot.
- OpenAI's ChatGPT Work suffered roughly three hours of elevated errors and latency on Monday.
- Microsoft's Exchange Online experienced separate, unrelated degraded functionality the same day.
- The outages come as Microsoft and OpenAI increasingly compete despite Microsoft's $13 billion investment in OpenAI.
Source: cnbc.com — Ashley Capoot, 2026-08-31
Published there as: “Microsoft Outlook and OpenAI's ChatGPT Work are experiencing user outages”
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