OpenAI incident: Elevated error rates in ChatGPT Go conversations

1. resolvedOct 6, 2026, 14:40 UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

2. monitoringOct 6, 2026, 13:53 UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. investigatingOct 6, 2026, 13:35 UTC

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 6, 2026, 13:39 UTCoperational → degraded
• Oct 6, 2026, 13:59 UTCdegraded → operational

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