Some users are unable to access Codex
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Some users are unable to access Codex OpenAI provides the API, ChatGPT, embeddings, images, and related AI services that many applications call directly.
resolved · 18 Jul 2026, 12:58 UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
monitoring · 18 Jul 2026, 08:31 UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
identified · 18 Jul 2026, 08:05 UTC
We have identified an issue causing some users to receive access-denied errors when using the Codex desktop app and CLI.
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