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OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down ahead of 'Astra' model launch

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CyberNew Threat Research Desk
• Original Reporting: BleepingComputer
CyberNew Threat Intel Assessment
Assessed Severity: INFORMATIONAL
Impacted Surface
Enterprise Perimeter & Network Defense
Intelligence Sector
Threat Intelligence & APT

Analyst Takeaway

"ChatGPT and Codex are experiencing a major outage, with users reporting errors across nearly every major ChatGPT feature. The outage started at approximately 10:58 AM ET on Thursday, September 3, and is affecting ChatGPT conversations, login, search, file uploads, Voice mode, GPTs, image generation, Deep Research, Agent, ChatGPT Work, and other services. OpenAI's Codex services are also affected..."

Recommended Defense & Mitigation

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Curated & Verified by CyberNew Threat Intelligence Desk Standard Defense Framework (NIST / MITRE ATT&CK)

ChatGPT

ChatGPT and Codex are experiencing a major outage, with users reporting errors across nearly every major ChatGPT feature.

The outage started at approximately 10:58 AM ET on Thursday, September 3, and is affecting ChatGPT conversations, login, search, file uploads, Voice mode, GPTs, image generation, Deep Research, Agent, ChatGPT Work, and other services.

OpenAI's Codex services are also affected by the outage.

If you are affected, ChatGPT may fail to load conversations, return errors when sending messages, or prevent you from using features such as Search, file uploads, image generation, Deep Research, and Voice mode.

Thankfully, OpenAI is aware of the problems and has acknowledged the outage on its status page.

"We are investigating the issue for the listed services," OpenAI said.

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