OpenAI incident
Elevated transcription failures affecting ChatGPT & Codex
OpenAI experienced a minor incident on May 8, 2026 affecting Codex Web and Codex API and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified May 07, 2026, 05:15 PM UTC
Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance)
- investigating May 07, 2026, 06:44 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance)
- investigating May 07, 2026, 08:17 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance)
- investigating May 07, 2026, 11:47 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components App (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance)
- monitoring May 08, 2026, 06:15 AM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Voice mode (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance)
- resolved May 08, 2026, 08:31 AM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Voice mode (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) CLI (Operational) App (Operational) VS Code extension (Operational) Codex API (Operational)