OpenAI's infrastructure has faced recurring pressure from surging demand for its latest large language models, contributing to a series of incidents that shape trader views on near-term ChatGPT reliability. A major global outage struck on July 25, 2026, impacting ChatGPT, the developer API, and Codex services for hours, while August 11 saw elevated errors across APIs, Codex, and Work Mode that resolved quickly. The status page reports strong overall uptime above 99.6% for ChatGPT components, yet minor spikes in error rates continue amid rapid scaling. Competitive alternatives like Claude and Gemini have reported their own disruptions, underscoring industry-wide challenges with inference capacity, but OpenAI's dominant user base amplifies outage visibility. No major product launches or regulatory events appear imminent that would immediately alter load patterns.
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ChatGPT will be considered to have experienced a qualifying incident on the specified day if the OpenAI Status Page for ChatGPT (status.openai.com) displays that day’s status box as a shade of red indicating Partial/Full Outage once it is finalized. (green indicates "No incidents", yellow indicates "Degraded performance"). A day will be considered finalized once the following day’s status box is added on the Status Page.
Only incidents listing ChatGPT under 'Affected components' will be considered. Incidents labeled as affecting 'APIs,' 'Codex,' 'FedRamp,' or 'Ads Platform,' but not ChatGPT, will have no bearing on the resolution of this market.
This market will remain open until the specified day’s status box is finalized and all incidents that began during the specified date have been resolved. Revisions that change an incident’s impact classification to or from 'Partial/Full Outage' will be considered if the revision is published before the specified day’s status box is finalized or before all incidents that began during the specified date have been resolved.
This market will resolve once the specified day’s status box is finalized, provided no incident that began during the specified date is ongoing. In case of an ongoing incident the market will remain open until the incident is marked as “Resolved” and all relevant data has been released. If the incident in question is not resolved or all relevant data has not been released by the end of the seventh day after the specified date, this market will resolve based on the data available at that time.
The primary resolution source for this market will be official system status information published by OpenAI on status.openai.com; however, a consensus of credible reporting may also be used.
Market Opened: Aug 12, 2026, 7:13 PM ET
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0x65070BE91...ChatGPT will be considered to have experienced a qualifying incident on the specified day if the OpenAI Status Page for ChatGPT (status.openai.com) displays that day’s status box as a shade of red indicating Partial/Full Outage once it is finalized. (green indicates "No incidents", yellow indicates "Degraded performance"). A day will be considered finalized once the following day’s status box is added on the Status Page.
Only incidents listing ChatGPT under 'Affected components' will be considered. Incidents labeled as affecting 'APIs,' 'Codex,' 'FedRamp,' or 'Ads Platform,' but not ChatGPT, will have no bearing on the resolution of this market.
This market will remain open until the specified day’s status box is finalized and all incidents that began during the specified date have been resolved. Revisions that change an incident’s impact classification to or from 'Partial/Full Outage' will be considered if the revision is published before the specified day’s status box is finalized or before all incidents that began during the specified date have been resolved.
This market will resolve once the specified day’s status box is finalized, provided no incident that began during the specified date is ongoing. In case of an ongoing incident the market will remain open until the incident is marked as “Resolved” and all relevant data has been released. If the incident in question is not resolved or all relevant data has not been released by the end of the seventh day after the specified date, this market will resolve based on the data available at that time.
The primary resolution source for this market will be official system status information published by OpenAI on status.openai.com; however, a consensus of credible reporting may also be used.
Resolver
0x65070BE91...OpenAI's infrastructure has faced recurring pressure from surging demand for its latest large language models, contributing to a series of incidents that shape trader views on near-term ChatGPT reliability. A major global outage struck on July 25, 2026, impacting ChatGPT, the developer API, and Codex services for hours, while August 11 saw elevated errors across APIs, Codex, and Work Mode that resolved quickly. The status page reports strong overall uptime above 99.6% for ChatGPT components, yet minor spikes in error rates continue amid rapid scaling. Competitive alternatives like Claude and Gemini have reported their own disruptions, underscoring industry-wide challenges with inference capacity, but OpenAI's dominant user base amplifies outage visibility. No major product launches or regulatory events appear imminent that would immediately alter load patterns.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · Updated
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