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🟠 OpenAI's search feature is currently playing dead while engineers apply the digital equivalent of duct tape and prayer. Turns out 'monitoring recovery' is corporate speak for 'we have no idea how long this takes.' Your research dreams are temporarily on ice. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Feb 16, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Shopping Research Feature Down

// Status page says

Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Search (Full outage)

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

https://status.openai.com//incidents/01KHM3D6HBAX95H7V8MXHNKDK6

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