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News18
17-07-2025
- News18
ChatGPT Down: OpenAI's Chatbot Faces Significant Global Outage Affecting Thousands of Users
OpenAI's ChatGPT and related services experienced a global outage, preventing users from logging in or completing tasks. The disruption began early on July 16, affecting other OpenAI tools like Sora, Codex, and the GPT API. The issue started around 6 AM IST and peaked at 7:10 AM. At that time, approximately 91% of the problems were linked to ChatGPT. News18 Mobile App -
Arabian Post
17-07-2025
- Arabian Post
Global ChatGPT Outage Disrupts Users in India and UAE
OpenAI confirmed early on Wednesday that ChatGPT, along with its associated services Sora and the GPT API, was disrupted worldwide. Users in India and the UAE reported difficulties starting from around 5 am local time, experiencing error messages like 'unable to load projects' and delays in loading chat history. Outage tracker Downdetector indicated that approximately 82–88 per cent of users encountered service interruptions. OpenAI's status page noted 'elevated error rates on ChatGPT record mode, Sora and Codex,' and the company confirmed its engineers were actively working on mitigation measures. The widespread impact began just after 6:10 am IST, affecting users across North America, Europe, and Asia. Users faced blank interfaces, verification loops, and failure to load previous conversations. Some were unable even to initiate new sessions. OpenAI offered guidance to users striving to navigate the disruption, but withheld a timeline or root cause. ADVERTISEMENT The company did not identify a specific trigger, but Downdetector data shows this marks the second significant outage this month — the first occurred on 10 June and a major one emerged earlier this month. This recurring instability has raised concerns about OpenAI's infrastructure resilience, especially as AI tools become integral to education, business, coding and creative processes. In the UAE and India, users began logging issues around 5 am. Chat histories failed to load and sessions stalled, exacerbating frustrations among professional and casual users alike. According to Downdetector, 82 per cent of reports were tied to ChatGPT access issues, 12 per cent to website availability, and 6 per cent to mobile app failures. On social media platforms like X, users shared screenshots and vented frustrations. Common complaints included error loops and service unavailability, sparking concerns within developer and content-creator communities that rely on OpenAI's tools in real time. OpenAI subsequently issued a statement confirming that services had been fully restored by about 7 am local time in affected regions, and reassured users that full functionality was reinstated. However, the company offered little explanation regarding the failure's origins. Analysts note that as AI systems like ChatGPT become embedded in daily workflows—from drafting documents to coding support—even brief outages can have outsize repercussions. The frequency of these outages this month has drawn scrutiny, prompting calls for OpenAI to bolster system capacity and redundancy. Enterprise clients dependent on GPT-powered tools for generating content, automating customer support responses, or powering educational platforms may face operational setbacks. In response, OpenAI told users it is implementing mitigation strategies to prevent repeats of such disruptions. Market watchers will track whether these outages trigger enterprise clients to reassess vendor risk, potentially exploring multi‑vendor AI strategies or hosting localised AI solutions with stronger reliability guarantees. Despite the disruption, by mid-morning on Wednesday ChatGPT and affiliated services were reported as fully operational. Yet, as AI becomes a mission‑critical component of digital ecosystems, the pressure to ensure consistent performance has surged dramatically.
Time of India
16-07-2025
- Time of India
ChatGPT services fully restored after global outage
OpenAI has confirmed that the ChatGPT services are now completely operational, after a major outage which impacted thousands of users. The outage which started early morning on July 16 impacted ChatGPT users worldwide and also affected other OpenAI services including Sora and GPT API. As reported by DownDetector, around 88% ChatGPT users are not able to access the chatbot. The users also reported of login failures. However, the company has now confirmed that all the services are working fine. ChatGPT back after global outage OpenAI acknowledged the outage and also said that it is working on a fix. The company has now updated its status page which shows all the ChatGPT services are working fine. 'All impacted services have now fully recovered,' said the company on the status page. As per DownDetector, the website which keeps track of services reported that the outage began around 6.10 AM IST on July 16 (today). Around 88% users complained of complete inaccessibility of ChatGPT. While 10% reported of issues with the website and 9% had problems with the app. Users reported of complete blank chat screen and incomplete responses. Some of the users also had issues with the login as the chatbot was not able to move ahead the verification process. Apart of this, users also complained of sudden disconnections during live session and many lost their work in coding and video generation with tools like Codex and Sora. AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
Time of India
16-07-2025
- Time of India
Is ChatGPT down? Users face mid-week crisis for real; OpenAI issues statement
It's peak mid-week crisis, as OpenAI's services are experiencing another major global outage, with users across the globe reporting disruptions with ChatGPT, Sora, and the GPT API. This is the second major outage this month that has raised concerns about the platform's reliability as demand for AI tools has gone up. With concentrations of complaints from North America, Europe, and Asia, including India, the outage seems to be impacting every region. The latest disruption started on July 16, 2025, with Downdetector recording a sudden spike in user reports shortly after 6:10 AM IST. Here's what the early data indicates According to the early data as of now, around 88 per cent of complaints relate to ChatGPT being completely inaccessible. Secondly, the remaining issues involve API errors and problems with Sora and Codex. OpenAI's statement on the ChatGPT disruption for the second time in a month As social media is flooded with complaints around the OpenAI's services crisis, the company has put out a statement, stating, 'We have identified elevated error rates and are working on a mitigation.' The page also confirms that there is a 'degraded performance' across multiple services. As soon as people across the globe started facing issues with ChatGPT services linked to blank chat screens and incomplete responses, login failures, users stuck in verification loops, and more. In response to these queries, OpenAI has acknowledged the issue; however, the company has not yet. They provided an anticipated time for complete restoration or verified the underlying cause (software bug, server overload, etc.). Social media is flooded with reactions and memes around ChatGPT's disrupted services As soon as the people experienced the issues, they flooded social media with reactions and memes. One user on X (formerly called Twitter) shared, "Me and ChatGPT lately." me and chatgpt lately Another added, "ChatGPT is currently down for thousands of users." "Everyone running to X to see if ChatGPT is down," one shared. Everyone running to X to see if ChatGPT is down. "He created chatgpt without chatgpt btw" ChatGPT is down, I was literally having a trauma dump and annoy to get some helpful tips on coping .. now what 'i asked chatgpt' 'i asked grok' yeah well i asked taehyun while holding this pic up and he said woah shit" What can the users do now? OpenAI suggests the following until services stabilise: Avoid trying to log in repeatedly, as this could cause security locks to be activated. Looking for real-time information on the official status page. Work is saved externally to guard against data loss during disruptions.
India Today
16-07-2025
- India Today
ChatGPT down: AI chatbot shows unusual activity error to some users, many unable to login
ChatGPT is down. The OpenAI AI chatbot is currently facing a major global outage, leaving many users unable to log in or access its services. The disruption, which began early on the morning of July 16, is also affecting other OpenAI tools including Sora, Codex, and the GPT API. According to Downdetector, the issue started around 6 AM IST and reached its peak around 7:10 AM. At the time of writing the story, roughly 91 per cent of the issues were related to ChatGPT. According to posts of users online, many of them have been completely locked out of ChatGPT. Others are encountering errors with API calls, delayed responses from Sora, and performance issues with users online have also shared screenshots of blank chat screens, login verification loops, and instances where their chats were interrupted mid-conversation – leading to lost data. Developers who depend on Codex for real-time programming help and creatives using Sora to generate videos have also reported delays. OpenAI has acknowledged the problem on its status page, saying: 'We have identified elevated error rates and are working on a mitigation.' The update also refers to 'degraded performance' across several services and notes an unexpected change involving ChatGPT's connectors, which have been automatically enabled. The company added: 'We are investigating the issue for the listed services.' This marks the second major outage for OpenAI in the past one month, raising concerns among regular users and developers who rely on the tools for work and content generation. The outage seems to be affecting users worldwide, with a significant volume of complaints from India, some parts of Asia, and the US and has yet to confirm the cause of the outage or provide a timeline for full recovery.- Ends
