Minor incident
OpenAI: Errors processing large PDFs in the Responses API
Oct 6, 2026, 15:45 UTC
started
17:50 UTC
resolved
2 h 04 min
duration
Current status of OpenAI: Operational — live OpenAI status
Timeline
- Oct 6, 2026, 15:23 UTCinvestigatingWe are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- Oct 6, 2026, 15:29 UTCidentifiedWe are implementing the mitigation.
- Oct 6, 2026, 17:50 UTCresolvedAll impacted services have now fully recovered.
Updates as published by OpenAI.
Other services with incidents at the same time
This was part of a wider event: 22 services reported incidents within the hour.
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- Ping Identity 16:29 UTC · PingOne services impacted
- SANS Institute 16:26 UTC · Login Services Down
- Pitney Bowes 16:26 UTC · Royal Mail Service Disruption Observed for RateShipment.
- Plex 16:11 UTC · No AVOD ads on iOS or tvOS
- Vercel 16:10 UTC · Vercel Auth login failures for pages with Deployment Protection enabled
- Infura 16:00 UTC · MegaETH Testnet: Network Halted
- CircleCI 16:00 UTC · Delays in pipelines, workflows, UI data, and notifications
- AdGuard 15:57 UTC · AdGuard DNS - DNS resolution issues in Amsterdam
- SerpApi 15:51 UTC · Performance Degradation
- AssemblyAI 15:44 UTC · Increased Processing Times and Errors on EU Endpoint for Universal-3 Pro Async model
- Read AI 15:41 UTC · Read AI is experiencing an issue with Ask Read.
- Thomson Reuters Legal 15:39 UTC · Westlaw US - Deep Research and AI Assisted Research latency and errors
- Lightspeed 15:35 UTC · Lightspeed Retail (S-Series) - BridgePay
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