OpenAI has resolved a major technical issue that left ChatGPT and several associated services, including Codex and the company's APIs, intermittently unavailable for almost 24 hours. The disruption began on July 23 and continued into July 24, 2026, driving a surge in error messages and slow responses for users around the world. OpenAI applied mitigation measures and restored normal operations, while monitoring the systems for stability.
The outage affected individual users and businesses, as well as developers who rely on OpenAI's APIs for applications. During the incident, many reported trouble accessing ChatGPT, and some experienced complete service failures. OpenAI investigated the issue, applied technical mitigations and monitored recovery, a sequence also reflected in the company's published service-incident updates.
A separate incident on OpenAI's status page, dated October 20, 2026, was titled “Degraded performance in ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs.” It listed affected services across the company's products, including Chat Completions, Responses, Conversations, ChatGPT Work, Codex Web, Codex API and the CLI. OpenAI's update said, “All impacted services have now fully recovered.” That record describes a separate event and shows how the company reports service impact and recovery across its products.
OpenAI's Help Center advises users facing errors or slow responses, along with freezes or unresponsive chats, to check status.openai.com for known outages. It says messages such as “Something went wrong” can stem from temporary server problems or local issues, helping users distinguish a broader service incident from an individual connectivity or setup problem.
The disruption drew attention across the tech sector as organizations increasingly build tools like ChatGPT into daily workflows. OpenAI has not disclosed a specific cause for the outage. Interruptions on this scale highlight the reliability demands facing large digital platforms as more sectors adopt AI-driven tools. Changes in Spain's media field, including the recent move of a popular sports talk show to a new network, were covered in this report on a major television transition, showing how shifts in technology can affect industries in far-reaching ways.
OpenAI's response highlights the need for monitoring and support systems at services used for communication and research, as well as business operations. As AI tools become more embedded in everyday life, reliability remains a basic concern for providers and users.
For users in Spain and elsewhere, ChatGPT's restoration means a return to normal service. OpenAI continues to monitor its systems to maintain stability and prevent further interruptions.
