# OpenAI says routing error briefly disrupted ChatGPT and Codex

_Published Friday, September 4, 2026 at 3:18 PM EDT · AI, Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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OpenAI said a routing error beginning around 7:43 a.m. PT on September 3 made ChatGPT and Codex unavailable for some users across platforms. The company said it implemented a solution around 8:17 a.m. PT and was monitoring it. Anthropic and xAI also reported outages that morning, though neither OpenAI nor Anthropic identified a shared external cause. xAI attributed Grok's disruption to an outage at its Memphis compute center.

## Sources

- [wired.com](https://www.wired.com/story/nobody-is-saying-why-openai-and-anthropic-had-outages-today/)

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Published: 2026-09-04T19:18:36.108Z
Story chronology: 2026-09-03T14:43:00.000Z
Retrieved: 2026-10-20T06:15:34.533Z
Publisher: Tech & Business (techandbusiness.org)