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OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs stumble together

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OpenAI’s APIs, ChatGPT, and Codex all reported elevated error rates on Saturday, the fourth incident in four days for the company

OpenAI’s status page reported elevated error rates across its APIs, ChatGPT, and Codex on Saturday, marking the fourth service disruption in four days for the company. Users encountered 503 errors with the internal label “biscuit_baker_service_me_circuit_open,” which prevented requests from reaching OpenAI’s servers. The company moved from investigating to monitoring within an hour, saying it had applied a mitigation and was watching for recovery.

The outage hit all three pillars of OpenAI’s product line simultaneously. The API dashboard listed 12 affected components, ChatGPT showed 15, and Codex flagged four, with ChatGPT posting the weakest recent uptime of any OpenAI product over the past 90 days. The timing is awkward for a company that merged ChatGPT, Codex, and its API into a single platformunder Greg Brockman in...

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