OpenAI incident

Elevated Work Mode errors

OpenAI is currently experiencing a major incident affecting Codex in ChatGPT Desktop and ChatGPT Work, which began 3h ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
Oct 05, 2026, 07:03 AM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 2h 54m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 05, 2026, 07:03 AM UTC

Affected components

Codex in ChatGPT DesktopChatGPT Work

Update timeline

  1. investigating Oct 05, 2026, 07:03 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are observing elevated Work Mode errors. Scheduled tasks may also be impacted. Affected components ChatGPT Work (Degraded performance)

  2. investigating Oct 05, 2026, 07:14 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are continuing to observe elevated Work Mode errors. Scheduled tasks may also be impacted. Affected components Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Work (Degraded performance)