Elevated Codex API authentication errors
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Codex API (Operational)
Thursday 20 August 2026
AI news for 20 Aug 2026
10 items from 4 labs. 3 posts, 1 release, 1 model note and 5 incidents. OpenAI was busiest with 5.
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OpenAI 5
Elevated Errors for Thinking mode in ChatGPT
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Conversations (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) ChatGPT Work (Operational)
Introducing Intelligence Age
Introducing Intelligence Age, a new OpenAI blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom.
Chatgpt.com is down - all signups and logins are down as of right now
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Login (Operational)
Stampli cuts launch hours by 68% using ChatGPT Work
With a fixed deadline and design resources committed elsewhere, Stampli used Codex and ChatGPT Work to compress weeks of launch production into days.
Anthropic 3
anthropic-sdk-python v1.0.0
1.0.0 (2026-08-20) Full Changelog: v0.125.0...v1.0.0 ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES client: upgrade to httpx2 and some minor breaking changes. See MIGRATION.md for details Features client: upgrade to httpx2 and some minor breaking changes. See MIGRATION.md for details ( 33e2967 ) Bug Fixes beta: stop warning about output_format= on the parse/stream/tool_runner helpers ( 59bf261 ) Chores streaming: restore the original event imports in lib/streaming/_types.py ( 87e9e01 ) Documentation examples: use adaptive thinking in thinking examples ( b5870af )
Elevated errors on requests to multiple models
Aug 20 , 19:42 UTC Resolved - This issue has been resolved. Aug 20 , 19:16 UTC Investigating - We are investigating elevated errors on requests to some Claude models. We will provide additional updates as soon as possible.
Elevated errors on Google connectors
Aug 20 , 19:01 UTC Resolved - This issue has been resolved. Aug 20 , 18:32 UTC Investigating - We are investigating elevated errors affecting Google connectors (Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Chat) and custom Google integrations on Claude.ai. Core functionality is not affected. We will provide an update as soon as possible.
Google 1
Model repo updated: google/gemma-4-12B-it-assistant
any to any · 26,166 downloads · 121 likes · tags: gemma4_unified_assistant, text-generation, any-to-any, endpoints_compatible
Mistral 1
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