GoKawiilChatGPT and Codex suffer widespread outage across 15 core features
OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex services went down starting around 10:58 AM ET on Thursday, with users unable to access conversations, login, search, file uploads, voice mode, image generation and more. OpenAI confirmed on its status page that it is investigating elevated errors affecting at least 15 components, including ChatGPT Work, Deep Research, Agent, Atlas, and Connectors/Apps.
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The outage highlights how dependent millions of users and businesses have become on ChatGPT for daily workflows, from coding via Codex to research and productivity tasks. It also lands just before OpenAI's anticipated release of its next model, Astra, though the company has not linked the two events, and such outages have become a recurring issue for the platform.
- ChatGPT and Codex outage began around 10:58 AM ET on September 3
- At least 15 services affected, including search, voice mode, and image generation
- Outage precedes OpenAI's upcoming Astra model launch, though unrelated
Source: bleepingcomputer.com, 2026-09-03
Published there as: “OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down ahead of 'Astra' model launch”
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