ChatGPT was down: a brief outage for the AI chatbot, but it’s now fixed

OpenAI applied a fix to resolve errors with the conversations component of ChatGPT

By John McCann Updated October 23, 2025

Chatbot on a smartphone. — Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends

If you received an error message while using ChatGPT today, you weren’t alone. Thousands of users are reported that ChatGPT was down.

OpenAI – the company behind the well-known AI chatbot – quickly confirmed the issue and implemented a fix a little over an hour after initial reports.

ChatGPT outage: key updates

9:10 AM PDT: OpenAI confirms “we have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.”
9:04 AM PDT: OpenAI updates status, saying “Error rates are starting to reduce. We are investigating the issue for the listed services.”
8:39 AM PDT: OpenAI says it’s “investigating the issue for the listed services”
8:09 AM PDT: OpenAI confirms “increased errors on ChatGPT conversations”
8:00 AM PDT: Reports that OpenAI has an issue start to spike on Downdetector

ChatGPT outage: as it happened

Last updated October 23, 2025 9:21 AM

John McCann

Former Managing Editor

John has been a consumer technology & automotive journalist for over a decade.

Topics

Computing

Outlook will soon warn you before you answer an outdated email

Microsoft is bringing reply alerts, rule-based templates, and improved categories to Outlook

Microsoft has recently been cleaning up some longstanding Windows 11 pain points, including parts of the Start menu and Search. According to a new report from Windows Latest, the company is also preparing several useful changes for the new Outlook app on Windows 10 and Windows 11, which became generally available in 2024.

Microsoft is adding a warning for users who start replying to an older email after a newer response has arrived in the same conversation. The alert is meant to stop people from replying without seeing the latest information in the thread.

Computing

Google just changed how it grades the AI models you use for Android coding

Android Bench has a new testing framework and eight new models, so the rankings you remember are now out of date.

Google just changed how it measures which AI models are best at writing Android app code, and the update has shuffled the rankings developers use to pick their tools. The company's Android Bench leaderboard, which launched in March, now runs on a new testing system called Harbor. Google says this replaces the older, more generic testing tool it used before, and gives a better read on how models perform on real Android tasks, like updating old code to Jetpack Compose or handling wearable device networking.

New models shake up the top of the list

Computing

ChatGPT is coming for one of Google’s smartest Chrome features

OpenAI brings ChatGPT to Chrome to challenge Google's Gemini Side Panel

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT beyond its website with the launch of a new Chrome extension that can understand the contents of the webpage you're viewing. The extension allows users to ask questions about a page, summarize articles, explain complex concepts, and even kick off longer AI-powered tasks without leaving their browser.

The move positions ChatGPT as a direct competitor to Google's Gemini in Chrome, which introduced similar context-aware browsing features earlier this year. While both tools aim to bring AI directly into web browsing, they take slightly different approaches to productivity and automation.