OpenAI experienced a minor incident on July 25, 2026 affecting Responses and Fine-tuning and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified Jul 25, 2026, 11:35 AM 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 Fine-tuning (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance) Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Degraded performance) Sites (Degraded performance) Chat Completions (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Work (Degraded performance) Images (Degraded performance) Responses (Degraded performance) GPTs (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) Realtime (Degraded performance) Files (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Audio (Degraded performance) Embeddings (Degraded performance) Moderations (Degraded performance) Sora (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) Batch (Degraded performance)
- monitoring Jul 25, 2026, 11:46 AM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Image Generation (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Work (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) Embeddings (Degraded performance) Moderations (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance) Audio (Degraded performance) Realtime (Degraded performance) Sora (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) Batch (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) GPTs (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance) Images (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) Fine-tuning (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance) Responses (Degraded performance) Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Degraded performance) Sites (Degraded performance) Chat Completions (Degraded performance) Files (Degraded performance)
- resolved Jul 25, 2026, 11:57 AM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Operational) Files (Operational) Batch (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Responses (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) ChatGPT Work (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) Codex API (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Search (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Audio (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Sora (Operational) VS Code extension (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Images (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Sites (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Login (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Agent (Operational) Login (Operational) File uploads (Operational) CLI (Operational) Realtime (Operational)