← Back to the carnage
OPENAI

🔴 OpenAI's Deep Research feature decided LATAM users needed to think shallower. Engineering team in 'mitigation mode,' which is corporate for 'we're Googling the error message.' Partial outage means some regions get answers, others get 404s and existential dread. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Mar 09, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Deep Research requests are erroring for LATAM users

// Status page says

Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Deep Research (Partial outage)

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.openai.com//incidents/01KKAD2PHFBC0DP0X6ZQTJJ4D4

Openai's Greatest Hits

🟢 OPENAI 3d ago
🟡 OpenAI's investigating why some workspace admins can't manage plugins—turns out giving people control over their workspace was just a beta feature. Connectors/Apps decided to ghost the people actually trying to run things here. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
🟢 OPENAI 3d ago
🟠 OpenAI's Android app is playing content gatekeeper, showing "unavailable" errors instead of letting you actually chat. The fix is trickling out slower than a 2G connection. Web version works fine if you want to escape the mobile experience entirely. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
🟢 OPENAI 6d ago
🟡 OpenAI's desktop app decided Work threads are overrated. Users now experiencing the cutting-edge feature of threads that simply don't exist. Engineering team is 'investigating' what surely won't take 6 hours to fix. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
🟢 OPENAI 6d ago
🟡 OpenAI's desktop app decided threads were too mainstream, now refusing to create them for regular users. Codex is having commitment issues. Engineers are investigating whether this was a feature or a bug—spoiler: it's a bug. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)