India, Feb. 4 -- OpenAI restored ChatGPT services late Tuesday following a major outage that left thousands of users unable to access the AI chatbot. The disruption began around 3:00 PM ET on 3 February 2026, causing a sudden spike in error reports across the United States and several international regions.

Data from the outage-tracking website Downdetector showed that reports surged from a handful to over 12,000 within thirty minutes. Affected users encountered persistent "Hmm... something seems to have gone wrong" error messages. The failure impacted nearly every facet of the platform, including conversation history, image generation via DALL-E, search functions, and the recently launched Codex tools.

OpenAI acknowledged the issue on ...