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What OpenAI's 14 Published Outage Write-Ups Say Caused ChatGPT and Codex Incidents (and What Anthropic Publishes Instead)
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 further and…
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…
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…
Claude Cowork Was Broken on Windows for 4 Days. Anthropic's Fix Was a Microsoft Update
Anthropic's own status page says a Claude Cowork bug that lasted from 10 to 14 September 2026, about four days, was fixed by a Windows update from Microsoft.…
ChatGPT Work Mode Outage: OpenAI's Status Page Said 'Recovered' While Users Were Still Reporting Failures
On 14 September 2026, OpenAI opened a status incident for ChatGPT Work Mode whose very first public update already said a mitigation had been applied and service had…
Is ChatGPT or Codex Down? We Counted Every Incident OpenAI Logged in September 2026
When ChatGPT or Codex breaks, the first question is usually "is this just me?" OpenAI publishes an answer at status.openai.com, and it turns out to be a busier…