OpenAI has confirmed a major outage affecting ChatGPT services globally, with users unable to access chats or send messages due to technical issues.The outage began at approximately 5:00 AM ET and impacted users across the United States, Europe, and other regions.

Affected users reported that the platform would get stuck at loading animations for the sidebar and encountered 'too many concurrent requests' errors.The incident also disrupted OpenAI's coding platform, Codex, and several API endpoints.While OpenAI acknowledged the issue and applied a fix, testing continued to show problems.The outage lasted nearly 50 minutes, with ChatGPT fully recovering by 6:00 AM ET.The company emphasized its commitment to resolving the issue and monitoring the situation closely.This incident highlights the critical reliance on AI services and the potential disruptions caused by technical failures.