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OpenAI reports multiple service issues

OpenAI is dealing with 10 concurrent service issues — tracked live below.

By The Downtime · Oct 7, 2026 · 5:45 AM ·Updated 1 week ago

OpenAI is investigating a major issue affecting its ChatGPT desktop application. Users are unable to create new Work threads in version 26.1002.51308 of the app.

OpenAI develops ChatGPT, an AI chatbot widely used by millions of workers, developers, and researchers for writing, coding, and analysis tasks.

The company identified the issue in version 26.1002.51308 and began investigating. No timeline for resolution has been provided.

This is a developing story. We will update as more information becomes available.

⚠️ Issues being tracked (10)

Unable to create new ChatGPT Work threads in latest version of desktop app
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Workspace Agents Degraded and Responses Impacted
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Errors processing large PDFs in the Responses API
Resolved
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Computer Use Is Experiencing Issues
Resolved
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Elevated error rates in ChatGPT Go conversations
Resolved
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Elevated Work Mode errors
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Elevated errors affecting multiple products including ChatGPT (conversations), Image generations, Spaces and Pages, API rehydration, and Dots.
Resolved
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Elevated errors in API Platform login and administration APIs.
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Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations
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Issues saving and editing Pages
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🕒 Live updates (32)

resolved Unable to create new ChatGPT Work thread... Oct 7, 11:53 AM

We have released an updated app version with the fix for Linux, macOS and Windows. Affected users should update to the latest version.

identified Unable to create new ChatGPT Work thread... Oct 7, 11:06 AM

We are actively working on a fixed app version for Windows.

identified Unable to create new ChatGPT Work thread... Oct 7, 9:28 AM

We have identified the issue. We have released an updated app version for Linux and macOS. We are actively working to roll out the fix for Windows.

identified Unable to create new ChatGPT Work thread... Oct 7, 5:54 AM

we have identified the issue, working on rolling back to the previous version.

investigating Unable to create new ChatGPT Work thread... Oct 7, 5:31 AM

We are investigating the issue. Version 26.1002.51308 is affected

resolved Workspace Agents Degraded and Responses... Oct 7, 3:00 AM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

monitoring Workspace Agents Degraded and Responses... Oct 7, 2:45 AM

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

identified Workspace Agents Degraded and Responses... Oct 7, 1:52 AM

We are implementing the mitigation.

investigating Workspace Agents Degraded and Responses... Oct 7, 1:12 AM

We are investigating the issue for workspace agents, users may not see the responses during the issue time.

resolved Errors processing large PDFs in the Resp... Oct 6, 8:11 PM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

resolved Computer Use Is Experiencing Issues Oct 6, 8:00 PM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

investigating Computer Use Is Experiencing Issues Oct 6, 5:15 PM

We are investigating issues for agents api and computer use.

identified Errors processing large PDFs in the Resp... Oct 6, 4:39 PM

We are implementing the mitigation.

investigating Errors processing large PDFs in the Resp... Oct 6, 3:45 PM

We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

resolved Elevated error rates in ChatGPT Go conve... Oct 6, 2:40 PM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

monitoring Elevated error rates in ChatGPT Go conve... Oct 6, 1:53 PM

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

investigating Elevated error rates in ChatGPT Go conve... Oct 6, 1:35 PM

We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

resolved Elevated Work Mode errors Oct 6, 8:29 AM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

resolved Elevated errors affecting multiple produ... Oct 6, 3:17 AM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

monitoring Elevated errors affecting multiple produ... Oct 6, 2:44 AM

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

investigating Elevated errors affecting multiple produ... Oct 6, 2:41 AM

We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

resolved Elevated errors in API Platform login an... Oct 6, 1:35 AM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

monitoring Elevated errors in API Platform login an... Oct 6, 12:40 AM

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

investigating Elevated errors in API Platform login an... Oct 6, 12:40 AM

We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

resolved Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations Oct 6, 12:01 AM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

monitoring Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations Oct 5, 5:55 PM

We have mitigated the issue affecting ChatGPT conversations and are monitoring recovery.

investigating Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations Oct 5, 4:58 PM

We are investigating elevated error rates affecting some ChatGPT conversations. Error rates are improving, and our team is continuing to assess recovery. We will share further updates as they become available.

resolved Issues saving and editing Pages Oct 5, 1:04 PM

The issue affecting saving and live editing in Pages has been resolved

investigating Issues saving and editing Pages Oct 5, 12:44 PM

We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Some users may be unable to save changes or reconnect to live editing sessions.

monitoring Elevated Work Mode errors Oct 5, 9:50 AM

We have mitigated the issue, and are monitoring recovery.

investigating Elevated Work Mode errors Oct 5, 7:14 AM

We are continuing to observe elevated Work Mode errors. Scheduled tasks may also be impacted.

investigating Elevated Work Mode errors Oct 5, 7:03 AM

We are observing elevated Work Mode errors. Scheduled tasks may also be impacted.

📎 Sources

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