Executive Summary

OpenAI announced that ChatGPT is experiencing a widespread outage, preventing users from logging in, creating new accounts, and accessing existing conversations. The service disruption began earlier this week and has affected both web and mobile platforms. OpenAI is working to restore functionality and has urged users to check status updates for further information.

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Intelligence Metadata - Source Publisher: Bleeping Computer - Published Date: 2026-08-20T00:20:55+00:00 - Category: other

Original Description: ChatGPT is experiencing a major outage, and users are unable to sign in, create accounts, or load chats, including previous conversations. [...]

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