
OpenAI's conversational AI, ChatGPT, recently stumbled again, as users across the globe experienced a partial outage on 10 June 2025. Warnings of elevated error rates, sluggish responses, and service disruption triggered concerns over how dependable AI tools truly are in a world increasingly reliant on them.
According to OpenAI's status page, the disruptions began at approximately 3 am ET (8 am in the UK), with users scrolling through unresponsive prompts and error messages such as 'something went wrong.' Outage‑tracker DownDetector recorded a sharp surge in issue reports, leaping from dozens to throttle‑breaking hundreds per minute.