This could point to DNS issues affecting both Gemini or ChatGPT, or it may be unrelated.

Well, perhaps OpenAI should have thought of that when it stoked the Ghibli fire.

But for now, we’re happy to see that it’s back to its error alert-free self.

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That might explain why ChatGPT has been uncooperative for you again today.

YesterdayAltman was crowingthat ChatGPT had acquired “one million users in the last hour”.

We’re now hearing that Deep Researchcould be coming to OpenAI’s free tier soon.

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Maybe sort out these “capacity challenges” first eh, OpenAI?

In the US, reports peaked at almost 2,200 in the US at 11.10pm ET / 4.10pm BST.

Fortunately, they’re now down to around half that.

A laptop screen showing a ChatGPT error message

The question now is whether or not this is going to become a daily occurrence this week.

Let’s hope we’re not all back here tomorrow looking at Downdetector…

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A laptop screen showing a Google Gemini error message

A laptop screen showing an OpenAI status page with ChatGPT issues

A Downdetector graph showing reported issues with ChatGPT

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A Downdetector graph showing OpenAI issues

A laptop screen showing OpenAI’s status history page of ChatGPT issues

A Downdetector graph showing a ChatGPT outage

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A Downdetector graph showing reported problems with OpenAI and ChatGPT

A laptop screen showing error messages on OpenAI’s status page