India, July 25 -- ChatGPT services have been restored after a widespread outage affected users across multiple countries on Saturday, with OpenAI confirming that affected systems were back online following hours of disruption.

Users across the US, Europe, India, Japan, Australia and other regions reported difficulties accessing the AI chatbot, loading conversations and submitting prompts during the outage.

OpenAI acknowledged the issue through its system status page, saying it was investigating problems affecting ChatGPT and related services. The company later confirmed that the disruption had been resolved and services had returned to normal.

The outage began around 5 am ET on Saturday (10 am GMT), according to The Independent. During...