A major technical disruption has rendered ChatGPT unavailable, impacting millions of users globally and causing significant digital inconvenience. The artificial intelligence platform, developed by OpenAI, experienced a severe service interruption that left users frustrated and disconnected.

Downdetector, a platform tracking digital service disruptions, recorded over 1,000 user reports highlighting the outage's extensive reach. Social media platforms quickly erupted with user complaints, with many expressing concern about lost conversation histories and interrupted workflows.
"Second brain just stopped working!" wrote one user on X, reflecting the widespread dependence on the AI chatbot for professional and personal tasks.
The disruption extends beyond individual users, affecting businesses and organizations relying on OpenAI's application programming interface (API) for critical operations. This marks the third significant outage since December, raising questions about the platform's technological reliability.
Concurrent with the service interruption, a related controversy emerged involving tech moguls Elon Musk and Sam Altman. The dispute centers on the Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project, which President Donald Trump recently highlighted as a potential $500 billion investment partnership involving OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank.
Musk challenged the project's financial feasibility, publicly questioning the available investment capital on his social media platform X. "They don't actually have the money," Musk stated, suggesting SoftBank has secured less than $10 billion.
The ChatGPT outage underscores the growing challenges in maintaining robust digital infrastructure for increasingly complex artificial intelligence platforms. As businesses and individuals become more dependent on AI technologies, such disruptions highlight the critical need for reliable technological solutions.
OpenAI has not yet released an official statement explaining the cause of the service interruption. Users continue to await resolution and access to their AI-powered tools.