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INCIDENT IN PROGRESS
ChatGPT
✓new thread failed on the latest desktop app version for personal accounts
Updated
Confirmed disruption
02:00Started
1Timeline events
Confirmed by the official source.
Executive summary
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Summary
ChatGPT has an official partial outage affecting Codex in ChatGPT Desktop. Users on the latest desktop app version are unable to create new ChatGPT Work threads.
What users experienced
- User impact
Creating new ChatGPT Work threads is failing in the latest desktop app version.
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Started
02:007 Oct 2026Timeline of the incident
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Detection
Confirmed by an official service source.
What we know
- ✓The affected component is Codex in ChatGPT Desktop, classified as a partial outage.
- ✓Version 26.1002.51308 is identified as affected.
- ✓The provider status progressed from Investigating to Identified.