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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, 79 were…

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 shared network…

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…

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 to confirm…

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 win for…

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 one contemporaneous…

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. We read…

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 recovered. A…

Updated October 11, 2026: this article covers September only. For the longer record, see our dataset of 111 OpenAI incidents from July to October, and for how far the status…

If Gemini shows "Something went wrong" with a number in brackets, Google, as far as we could find, does not explain the number. What exists is a set of community…