ChatGPT faces second major outage in one month, Microsoft reveals cause
India TodayThis is the second time that OpenAI's ChatGPT has suffered a major outage. At around 1:30 PM ET, many users experienced issues with ChatGPT, as the chatbot abruptly stopped responding to queries, according to an outage tracking website, DownDetector. OpenAI didn’t specify the “upstream provider” linked to the issue, but its exclusive cloud provider, Microsoft, reported a “power issue” at one of its data centers that started around the same time as the OpenAI problems and affected North America, and problems with Xbox cloud gaming. ChatGPT has experienced multiple outages this month, with the latest occurring on December 11, the same day Apple launched iOS 18.2 featuring GPT integration in Siri. At the time, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted that ChatGPT had been down for 30 minutes, adding a frown emoji and saying, "We are much, much better at reliability than we used to be, but clearly more work in front of us."