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ChatGPT outage hits thousands of users globally
Times of India··25 Jul
ChatGPT faced a global outage on July 25 affecting thousands of users in India, the United States and the United Kingdom, Downdetector reported. OpenAI acknowledged issues on its status page and said mitigation was applied while recovery was monitored. Most reports cited login failures on the web version. India logged about fourteen hundred reports from Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.
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What It Means For You
- Users relying on ChatGPT for daily work may face login failures, lost sessions and inaccessible chat history during outages.
- OpenAI has not disclosed a cause or resolution timeline while engineers monitor recovery across regions.
- A July 23 outage already lasted close to twenty four hours, making this the second disruption within one week.
What's Happening
- Downdetector recorded thousands of outage reports across India, the US and UK on July 25 afternoon.
- OpenAI's status page stated engineers applied mitigation and were monitoring recovery.
- Users reported authentication errors, loading screens and mid conversation sign outs on web and mobile apps.
Second ChatGPT Disruption This Week
- Roughly eighty percent of US outage reports targeted the web version rather than the mobile app or API.
- Login system failures can occur even when underlying chatbot infrastructure continues operating normally.
- Suggested workarounds include logging out and back in, switching between app and website, and checking status.openai.com.
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