As of 11AM on Thursday,September 3rd, 2026 - ChatGPT Down for Thousands of Users Thursday, Downdetector Reports

[GVWire.com] ChatGPT experienced a possible outage Thursday, according to Downdetector.com.

More than 5,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 7:53 a.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources.

ChatGPT’s status checker says that they are not aware of any issues.

ChatGPT Update at 8:03 a.m.

More than 22,000 users have now reported an issue with the platform.

The status checker now says, “We are investigating the issue for the listed services.” Those services are Codex and ChatGPT.

ChatGPT Update at 8:09 a.m.

More than 43,000 users have now reported an issue with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT Update at 12:36 p.m.

[USA TODAY] OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude experienced widespread issues on the morning of Thursday, Sept. 3.

Open AI issued a status update that indicated "elevated errors" for ChatGPT and Codex, an AI coding software, as of 11:30 a.m. ET. The tech company said in its update it had applied mitigation and was monitoring for recovery. More than 38,000 users also reported issues with ChatGPT as of 11 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector, a site that tracks live online outages.

The bulk of outage reports were filed in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, according to Downdetector.

Anthropic attributed the outage to infrastructure issues. "We're working on it but don't have an ETA yet," Anthropic technical staffer CJ Avilla wrote in a post on X.

USA TODAY reached out to Open AI for more information on Sept. 3.