OpenAI Faces Major Outage Amid New Launches

• OpenAI experienced a significant outage affecting ChatGPT, Sora, and its API around 3pm PT, but services were largely restored by 9pm PT.
• The outage coincided with the launch of OpenAI's integration with Apple in iOS 18.2 and the public release of Sora, suggesting high traffic may have contributed.
• This interruption follows another global service outage for Meta products, and occurs during OpenAI's '12 days of shipmas' event.

Source: Techcrunch