OpenAI said it had applied a mitigation and was monitoring the recovery on September 17, 2026, after identifying elevated error rates across its API models in an incident on its status page that listed 12 affected components of the company’s API platform. Incident Disclosure and Response The incident record, titled “We are seeing elevated error rates across API models,” carries a degraded-performance impact designation. In its first update, timestamped 4:20 PM ET on September 17, 2026, OpenAI…