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OpenAI · Tuesday, September 15, 2026

OpenAI says Agents API recovered after Monday delays

The File desk · Sep 15, 2026, 2:12 PM UTC

Status

Confirmed from OpenAI’s public status incident page. Lab newsrooms checked Sept. 15 showed no new frontier model launch overnight.

OpenAI’s public status page says customers using the Agents API had delays or could not start turns in managed sessions starting at 1:30 p.m. Pacific time on Sept. 14. The company posted that it applied mitigations, then marked the incident resolved at 11:39 p.m. Pacific the same day, saying managed sessions were processing turns normally again. This is an operations note, not a new model launch. A separate OpenAI customer story dated Sept. 14 on Perplexity using GPT-6 Astra remains live; it already ran in Monday’s edition. Anthropic’s newsroom still led with its Sept. 10 threat report and the Sept. 1 Claude Fable 5.1 / Mythos 5.1 announcement. xAI’s news page showed nothing newer than early September. Meta’s AI blog still led with July Muse posts. No new frontier model ID printed overnight.

OpenAI’s public status page says customers using the Agents API had delays or could not start turns in managed sessions starting at 1:30 p.m. Pacific time on Sept. 14.

The company posted that it applied mitigations, then marked the incident resolved at 11:39 p.m. Pacific the same day. Managed sessions were processing turns normally again, the page said.

This is an operations note, not a new model launch.

A separate OpenAI customer story dated Sept. 14 on Perplexity using GPT-6 Astra remains live. It already ran in Monday’s edition.

Anthropic’s newsroom still listed the Sept. 10 threat report and the Sept. 1 Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 announcement. There was no newer frontier-model launch on that page.

xAI’s news page showed dated posts through early September, including Grok Bot for Enterprise items. Nothing dated Sept. 14 or 15 was listed as a new frontier launch.

No new frontier model ID printed overnight.

What is still unknown or disputed

Primary sources

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  1. Source 1

    Degraded Performance affecting Agents API

    OpenAI Status · 2026-09-14 (resolved)

    Since 1:30 PM Pacific Time on September 14, customers using the Agents API have experienced delays or been unable to start turns in managed sessions; Resolved Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 11:39 PM — Managed sessions are now processing turns normally.

    https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M2H3J1D6Y7RHAP49GRWGJAY0

  2. Source 2

    Anthropic Newsroom (checked)

    Anthropic · checked 2026-09-15

    Newest listed remain Sept. 10 threat report and Sept. 1 Fable/Mythos 5.1; no newer frontier launch overnight.

    https://www.anthropic.com/news

  3. Source 3

    xAI News (checked)

    xAI · checked 2026-09-15

    Listed items remain early September (Grok Bot for Enterprise / related); nothing dated Sept. 14–15 as a new frontier launch.

    https://x.ai/news