ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency
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ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency OpenAI provides the API, ChatGPT, embeddings, images, and related AI services that many applications call directly.
resolved · 31 Aug 2026, 20:28 UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
monitoring · 31 Aug 2026, 20:01 UTC
We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery.
identified · 31 Aug 2026, 19:29 UTC
User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.
identified · 31 Aug 2026, 17:52 UTC
User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.
identified · 31 Aug 2026, 17:01 UTC
User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.
identified · 31 Aug 2026, 16:02 UTC
User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing to work on a mitigation.
identified · 31 Aug 2026, 15:21 UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. Plus users are particularly impacted, where Work mode is currently unavailable. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
identified · 31 Aug 2026, 15:04 UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated latency for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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