OpenAI confirmed a widespread outage affecting ChatGPT signups and logins, with the company's system status page reporting that all authentication services were down as of 8:03 p.m. ET. Users attempting to access their accounts or create new ones encountered errors, while reports surged on Downdetector.

The issue also impacted existing users, with some reporting on social media platform X that the chatbot was unresponsive even when logged in. Testing by 9to5Mac revealed that while the Mac app continued functioning, the web-based version occasionally failed to load chat history, account projects, or generate responses.

OpenAI indicated it was working on implementing a mitigation strategy, though no specific timeline was provided. The company advised users to monitor its official channels for updates.

By 8:54 p.m. ET, OpenAI announced that the issue had been fully resolved, restoring access to ChatGPT services. This marks another significant disruption for the popular AI chatbot platform, which has experienced periodic outages since its launch.