ChatGPT suffers major global outage affecting web and app users
OpenAI's ChatGPT experienced a major global outage affecting web and mobile users worldwide, displaying server errors and preventing access to chat histories.
ChatGPT experienced a major global outage on Saturday, preventing users across Europe, the United States, and other regions from accessing the artificial intelligence service. The disruption affected both the web platform and mobile application, leaving users unable to generate new responses or load previous conversation histories. Technical error messages such as "Internal Server Error" and "Bad Gateway" were widely reported during the downtime.
Developer OpenAI confirmed the widespread service disruption, stating that technical teams were actively investigating the high error rates and working on root causes. The company implemented mitigation measures and monitored system recovery following what reports noted as the second global blackout within three days.
Sources: Il Messaggero, La Stampa, ORF