OpenAI's ChatGPT service has experienced multiple minor degradations in August 2026, including elevated error rates for Workspace Agents and ChatGPT Work users on August 27 that lasted roughly four hours before full recovery, plus earlier login and thinking-mode issues. These incidents reflect ongoing scaling challenges for the large language model platform amid high demand, where network errors, latency spikes, and component-specific failures remain common despite rapid mitigations. Traders assessing outage probabilities by near-term deadlines weigh this pattern of frequent, short-duration disruptions against OpenAI's history of quick resolutions and the absence of major systemic failures. Upcoming factors include any new model releases or infrastructure updates that could temporarily affect stability.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · UpdatedAugust 31
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ChatGPT will be considered to have experienced a qualifying incident on the specified day if the OpenAI Status Page for ChatGPT (status.openai.com) displays that day’s status box as a shade of red indicating Partial/Full Outage once it is finalized. (green indicates "No incidents", yellow indicates "Degraded performance"). A day will be considered finalized once the following day’s status box is added on the Status Page.
Only incidents listing ChatGPT under 'Affected components' will be considered. Incidents labeled as affecting 'APIs,' 'Codex,' 'FedRamp,' or 'Ads Platform,' but not ChatGPT, will have no bearing on the resolution of this market.
This market will remain open until the specified day’s status box is finalized and all incidents that began during the specified date have been resolved. Revisions that change an incident’s impact classification to or from 'Partial/Full Outage' will be considered if the revision is published before the specified day’s status box is finalized or before all incidents that began during the specified date have been resolved.
This market will resolve once the specified day’s status box is finalized, provided no incident that began during the specified date is ongoing. In case of an ongoing incident the market will remain open until the incident is marked as “Resolved” and all relevant data has been released. If the incident in question is not resolved or all relevant data has not been released by the end of the seventh day after the specified date, this market will resolve based on the data available at that time.
The primary resolution source for this market will be official system status information published by OpenAI on status.openai.com; however, a consensus of credible reporting may also be used.
Market Opened: Aug 24, 2026, 9:58 AM ET
Resolver
0x65070BE91...ChatGPT will be considered to have experienced a qualifying incident on the specified day if the OpenAI Status Page for ChatGPT (status.openai.com) displays that day’s status box as a shade of red indicating Partial/Full Outage once it is finalized. (green indicates "No incidents", yellow indicates "Degraded performance"). A day will be considered finalized once the following day’s status box is added on the Status Page.
Only incidents listing ChatGPT under 'Affected components' will be considered. Incidents labeled as affecting 'APIs,' 'Codex,' 'FedRamp,' or 'Ads Platform,' but not ChatGPT, will have no bearing on the resolution of this market.
This market will remain open until the specified day’s status box is finalized and all incidents that began during the specified date have been resolved. Revisions that change an incident’s impact classification to or from 'Partial/Full Outage' will be considered if the revision is published before the specified day’s status box is finalized or before all incidents that began during the specified date have been resolved.
This market will resolve once the specified day’s status box is finalized, provided no incident that began during the specified date is ongoing. In case of an ongoing incident the market will remain open until the incident is marked as “Resolved” and all relevant data has been released. If the incident in question is not resolved or all relevant data has not been released by the end of the seventh day after the specified date, this market will resolve based on the data available at that time.
The primary resolution source for this market will be official system status information published by OpenAI on status.openai.com; however, a consensus of credible reporting may also be used.
Resolver
0x65070BE91...OpenAI's ChatGPT service has experienced multiple minor degradations in August 2026, including elevated error rates for Workspace Agents and ChatGPT Work users on August 27 that lasted roughly four hours before full recovery, plus earlier login and thinking-mode issues. These incidents reflect ongoing scaling challenges for the large language model platform amid high demand, where network errors, latency spikes, and component-specific failures remain common despite rapid mitigations. Traders assessing outage probabilities by near-term deadlines weigh this pattern of frequent, short-duration disruptions against OpenAI's history of quick resolutions and the absence of major systemic failures. Upcoming factors include any new model releases or infrastructure updates that could temporarily affect stability.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · Updated
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