OpenAI outage — July 16, 2026

Elevated Errors in Codex Review

OpenAI’s Multiple services was disrupted for 8d 7h on July 16, 2026. 503Radar’s sensors raised the first signal at 02:38 UTC, 5h 59m before the official status page acknowledged impact.

Key facts

Timeline

1. 02:38Z

   Detected · Signal

   9 crowd signals for Multiple services on OPENAI crossed the signal threshold.
2. 08:38Z

   Confirmed · Official

   An official OPENAI status-page notice corroborated the event — 5h 59m after detection.
3. 09:44Z

   Resolved

   Signal volume fell back below the threshold; the event was closed.

What people reported

“🟠 OpenAI is reporting a Partial Outage since 23:56 UTC "Elevated API error rates and latency on gpt-image-2 model" Affects: Images Live timeline → https://pi”@pingoru.bsky.social · 00:10 UTC

“🟠 Fireworks is reporting a Partial Outage since 00:32 UTC "OpenAI GPT OSS 120B chat completion API went down" Live timeline → https://pingoru.io/providers/fir”@pingoru.bsky.social · 00:40 UTC

“It should be a big warning sign that two of the major AI firms (meta and xai I know lol etc) are subleasing their capacity while still having enormous increases”bluesky_jetstream · 01:28 UTC

“#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 1/5 The Open AI breakout confirms more AI oversight & regulation is needed for security, harm to users & privacy. Who can be trusted, has”bluesky_jetstream · 01:30 UTC

“spectrum.ieee.org/stochastic-p... For those unaware of what went down.”@lwflouisa.eurosky.social · 02:26 UTC

“Howard University removed 502 students from its fall 2026 class over unpaid balances. In Colombia, President Petro is returning the sword of Simon Bolivar to th”bluesky_jetstream · 03:49 UTC

How this was detected

1 independent evidence class for Multiple services on OPENAI. 9 crowd reports across bluesky (single platform — not corroborating), z=+1.3σ vs the cell baseline. Official notice confirms it, 5h 59m after the crowd.