Home Industry Media ChatGPT outage hits users in India, UAE The company added that it was “working on implementing a mitigation” to address the problems by Gulf Business July 16, 2025 Follow us Follow on Google News Follow on Facebook Follow on Instagram Follow on X Follow on LinkedIn Image: Supplied Users of OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT in India and the UAE reported issues early on Wednesday morning around 5am, with many experiencing difficulties accessing chat history and prolonged loading times for commands. According to Downdetector, a platform that monitors website outages, 82 per cent of users globally reported an outage. Users attempting to access the service were also met with an “unable to load projects” message. OpenAI acknowledged the problem on its official status page, stating earlier, it was “investigating” the issue with the listed services. The company also said it was “working on implementing a mitigation” to address the problems. Services were back by 7am local time. The chatbot also previously experienced issues on June 10.