ChatGPT Down: OpenAI Confirms Partial Outage

OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is experiencing an active incident. The company's status page describes this as a partial outage with elevated latency affecting impacted services. Specifically, users across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. Earlier, OpenAI noted Plus users were particularly affected. The company is working on implementing a mitigation. It has not yet disclosed the underlying cause or an estimated time for full recovery. What's important is that OpenAI's APIs and Codex remained operational during this time. The bottom line is checking OpenAI's status page is the best way to determine if problems are a broader service disruption.