Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI faced widespread disruptions today as its flagship service, ChatGPT, suffered a sudden global outage that left millions of users unable to access the chatbot.

Users across multiple continents reported recurring connection errors and unresponsive prompts early this morning, quickly sparking a wave of complaints across social media platforms over the unexpected digital blackout.

OpenAI promptly acknowledged the technical failure on its official status monitor, assuring the public that engineers are actively investigating the issue and deploying an immediate resolution to restore systems.