AI News, Tools & Guides for 2026 | Our Nation Online
ChatGPT vs Claude Uptime: We Rebuilt Both Status Pages' Uptime Numbers From Their Incident Records
OpenAI and Anthropic both publish uptime percentages on their status pages, and they publish them differently: OpenAI shows one figure per component for a 90-day window plus a figure for…
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.…
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 own labels,…
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…