OpenAI change history: Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare

OpenAI reported a major incident causing elevated errors for API image generation and editing requests using gpt-image-2.5-flare. It started at 2026-09-15 23:50 UTC and lasted 40 min, resolving at 2026-09-16 00:30 UTC. OpenAI applied a mitigation and confirmed full recovery.