New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- For a platform that now handles more than 500 million weekly conversations, ChatGPT keeps going quiet at the worst possible moments. On Thursday morning, it did it again.

a platform millions of people now treat as infrastructure had become temporarily unavailable without warning.

OpenAI's incident log confirmed the disruption and indicated that affected services had since been restored to full operation, according to OpenAI's status page. The company did not immediately publish a detailed technical explanation of what triggered the failure or how long users remained affected. That pattern - terse status updates followed by restoration announcements, no root cause disclosed - has become OpenAI's characteristic appro...