If you tried using ChatGPT today and thought your internet was acting up, relax, it wasn’t just you. This Monday, the platform went down for a lot of people around the world. The first reports started around 10 AM New York time, when users began noticing the chat wouldn’t load or would suddenly stop responding. Within a short time, thousands of users were already complaining. Some couldn’t even log into their accounts, while others could get in but couldn’t access past conversations or generate responses. OpenAI confirmed there was an issue and said it was investigating a problem affecting both ChatGPT and Codex. The company didn’t explain exactly what caused the outage, but made it clear it was an internal issue, not something on the user’s side. The good news is that the service started coming back for some users a few hours later, although there were still some instability issues in certain cases. Moments like this show just how much tools like ChatGPT have become part of everyday life. When it goes down, it feels like half the internet goes down with it. https://www.techradar.com/news/live/chatgpt-down-april-2026