OpenAI experienced a minor incident on September 3, 2026 affecting ChatGPT Atlas and File uploads and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Sep 03, 2026, 12:04 AM UTC
Status: Investigating ChatGPT Work Mode is experiencing high error rates. We are investigating the issue. Affected components Search (Partial outage) Agent (Partial outage) Deep Research (Partial outage) Connectors/Apps (Partial outage) ChatGPT Atlas (Partial outage) File uploads (Partial outage) Voice mode (Partial outage) GPTs (Partial outage) Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Partial outage) Sites (Partial outage) Conversations (Partial outage) Compliance API (Partial outage) Image Generation (Partial outage) ChatGPT Work (Partial outage) Login (Partial outage)
- resolved Sep 03, 2026, 12:10 AM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components File uploads (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Operational) Sites (Operational) Conversations (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Agent (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) ChatGPT Work (Operational) Login (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Search (Operational) Deep Research (Operational)