ChatGPT is down - Everything we know about the latest AI outage impacting OpenAI (www.techradar.com)

OpenAI services including ChatGPT, Sora and other products are currently experiencing widespread disruption tied to an outage at Cloudflare. Users report intermittent responses and frequent Cloudflare.com error pages rather than normal chatbot behavior. OpenAI’s status page confirms the incident is caused by a third‑party service provider and not by their own servers, and the company says it’s monitoring and will provide updates as they become available. The outage highlights a familiar but critical risk for AI/ML services: heavy reliance on third‑party edge and networking infrastructure (CDN, DNS, DDoS/WAF) creates a single point of failure that can take down model access and APIs even when model backends remain healthy. For practitioners and product teams this underlines the importance of multi‑provider redundancy, robust failover logic, graceful degradation for clients, clear incident communications and SLA considerations. For researchers and operators, outages also skew telemetry and user studies during incidents and can interrupt large-scale data collection or model-inference pipelines that depend on hosted endpoints. Users should watch OpenAI and Cloudflare status pages for resolution updates.