OpenAI incident
Artifact generation (asking the model to generate a spreadsheet or slideshow) on ChatGPT is down for all users.
OpenAI experienced a minor incident on February 25, 2026 affecting Codex Web and ChatGPT Atlas and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Feb 25, 2026, 06:15 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) GPTs (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance)
- resolved Feb 25, 2026, 09:05 PM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Compliance API (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Login (Operational) Search (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Agent (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Conversations (Operational)