Google News and OpenAI both go down on Friday morning

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If you are having trouble trying to get the latest info from the Google News app today, or if you're attempting to access ChatGPT but can't, it's not you, According tohas been experiencing issues this morning with both the Google News iOS and Android apps, and the website version. On Down Detector, the number of complaints submitted to the site from Google News users soared from 5 at 7:46 am EDT to 1,241 just 45 minutes later.

Visitors to the Google News website saw the image of an upside-down ice cream cone that said,"Uh-oh, something went wrong. Please try again." The outage was felt globally and while it appears that things are back to normal and have been since 9:50 am EDT, as recently as 11:30 am, a user in Florida was still insisting on DownDetector that the app was not working. Here in Massachusetts, the app is working perfectly.

76% of those complaints coming into DownDetector about OpenAI said that the problem was affecting the ChatGPT AI chatbot with more complaints about the website than the app . The outage map indicates that New York, Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are areas where OpenAI users have issues. Mywent down briefly as DownDetector received 12,416 complaints at 6:45 pm EDT compared to the 337 that were filed at 5:30 pm EDT.

 

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