There were also more than 500,000 Google searches about ChatGPT being down on Tuesday, making it the second-most-searched topic in the U.S. at the time. And in the hours after the

An OpenAI representative responded to CNET via email, directing us to its status page, which originally stated that OpenAI is experiencing "elevated errors and latency" and that it has identified the root cause and is working to mitigate the underlying issue.

Fire up ChatGPT and submit any request at the prompt. In return, the AI will tell you that there's an error in the message stream or that something seems to have gone wrong. The trouble is the same whether you use the ChatGPT website, the Windows or Mac app, or the iOS or Android app.

OpenAI's ChatGPT, Sora image generator, and other tools were down Tuesday as the company suffered an outage. Reports of outages spiked early this morning, according to website status tracker Downdetector. By around 8:00 a.m., it had received more than 1,300 reports of outages from users who were unable to access OpenAI's generative AI tools.

We were eventually able to get the tool to answer the question, “Is ChatGPT down?” It said, “Yes—at the moment, ChatGPT is experiencing a global outage.” It pointed to v

Fire up ChatGPT and submit any request at the prompt. In return, the AI will tell you that there's an error in the message stream or that something seems to have gone wrong. The trouble is the same whether you use the ChatGPT website, the Windows or Mac app, or the iOS or Android app.

I brainstormed a job change with AI to find my second career. Here's how you can do it, too. Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology.