Google Cloud, Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Shopify are just a few of the companies that experienced outages this week, impacting the productivity of countless users worldwide.

As of 6:32PM ET, OpenAI’s tracker reported a “full recovery in the API,” and that “Nearly all ChatGPT components are now working properly for all users.” The one spot of trouble, however, is voice mode, which still has elevated error rates.

The outage only lasted a few hours, but during this dark time many people took to social media platforms to express their concern. What they said was very revealing.  “Suddenly ChatGPT goes down and I no longer know how to work

A widespread outage Thursday afternoon affected multiple online services, including Google, Spotify, Discord and more.

Google's cloud suffered significant global outages on Thursday, knocking down or disrupting a number of large internet services. "We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products," a ...

The layoffs will impact less than 4% of Microsoft’s global workforce, impacting workers across different teams with varying levels of experience, according to a report.

According to the outage tracking site DownDetector, there were more than 1,820 users that reported issues as of 11:12 AM EST. Users reported that ChatGPT was unable to complete various tasks. Most users reported issues with ChatGPT. A reported outage map indicated that most outages were reported near New York.

I asked #ChatGPT to write this tweet about its own crash. Self-awareness level: 🤖” Notably, the outage is one of the most significant incidents to impact OpenAI’s services in recent months.