OpenAI Services Restored: Analysis of the February 3, 2026 ChatGPT Outage

OpenAI Services Restored: Analysis of the February 3, 2026 ChatGPT Outage

Jake B
4 February 2026

OpenAI services have been restored following a widespread 3.5-hour outage on February 3, 2026. The disruption, triggered by high demand from the new Codex app, highlighted critical global dependencies on AI infrastructure.