Global Chaos: ChatGPT Suffers Major Outage, Leaving Millions in the Dark

In a shocking turn of events, ChatGPT, the revolutionary AI platform, experienced a global outage on Saturday, July 25, 2026, leaving millions of users stranded. The outage, which began at approximately 5 a.m. ET, was reported by over 3,000 users on DownDetector, a website that tracks outages of major online platforms. According to OpenAI's official status page, the platform was 'experiencing issues' with 'elevated error rates,' prompting the company to apply mitigation measures to resolve the issue. The outage not only affected ChatGPT but also impacted OpenAI's coding platform, Codex, and APIs. However, in a swift response, OpenAI managed to resolve the issue, and the platform was 'fully operational' again by midday on Saturday. This recent outage comes on the heels of temporary issues that users faced just a few weeks ago, raising concerns about the platform's reliability.