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Is OpenAI's Status Page Accurate? We Compared 15 Incidents With OpenAI's Own Write-Ups
A status page is only useful if its times roughly match what users experienced, and OpenAI gives us a way to check one half of that. For 15 incidents it…
The State of AI Reliability, July to October 2026: We Measured 111 ChatGPT and Codex Incidents (and What Claude's Status Page Shows Separately)
Between 10 July and 8 October 2026, OpenAI's status feed recorded 111 incidents, and most were labelled degraded performance or left unlabelled, not outage. In OpenAI's…
OpenAI's 29 September Outage: The Write-Up Blames a Feature Rollout and Dates the Mitigation About 100 Minutes Before the Status Page
OpenAI's write-up for its 29 September 2026 outage says a feature rollout caused routine settings requests to trigger repeated background checks, which opened connections across internal services until…
What OpenAI's 14 Recent Outage Write-Ups Say Caused ChatGPT and Codex Incidents (and What Anthropic Publishes)
When ChatGPT or Codex fails, incident titles are usually a variant of "elevated errors". For 15 of the 106 incidents on OpenAI's page since July, the company went…
What Does 'Resolved' Mean on ChatGPT's and Claude's Status Pages? We Measured How Long Incidents Wait Before Closing
On the status pages of OpenAI and Anthropic, many incidents pass through a "Monitoring" stage, where the company says a mitigation is in place and it is watching…
ChatGPT vs Claude: Who Logged More Incidents in September 2026? Why the Count Alone Misleads
If you count the incidents each provider posted on its own status page, OpenAI logged 40 in September 2026 and Anthropic logged 13, which looks like a clear…
News Said One Azure Outage Took Down ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini Together. We Checked the Three Companies' Own Pages
On 3 September 2026, ChatGPT and Claude both had real outages, within a few hours of each other, and Grok and Gemini were reportedly affected too. At least…