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Technology · 1 September 2026

ChatGPT users experienced significant errors and delays for several hours Monday evening

ChatGPT users experienced significant errors and delays for several hours Monday evening

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Users experienced problems with ChatGPT services for several hours on Monday evening, with some unable to start or continue tasks. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, acknowledged “elevated errors and latency” across various subscription plans. The company's status page listed the incident as a partial outage and is working on a fix.

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