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Inbox Zero, Involuntarily: Global Microsoft 365 Outage Leaves Outlook Down for Hours

Outlook reports peaked near 140,000 across 74 countries as an overwhelmed secure-connection process took Exchange Online servers offline, and Microsoft's first fixes didn't hold

A global Microsoft 365 outage knocked out Outlook and Exchange-linked services for more than eight hours. Microsoft says it wasn't...

#Microsoft #Microsoft 365 #Outlook
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Anthropic Unleashes Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2: Faster, Cheaper, and Racing Toward IPO

Anthropic's first frontier models since its call to slow AI down are 30% faster and 20% cheaper, with headline claims from black-hole physics to Fermat's Last Theorem

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, claiming 30% faster output and a lower $8/$40 per million token price, as it r...

#Anthropic #Claude #Artificial Intelligence
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Microsoft Pulls the Plug on Oracle AI Deal as It Thins Out Its Neocloud Partners

Bloomberg and CNBC report Microsoft is winding down rented Oracle AI capacity and shrinking its roster of GPU-rental partners to favour its own data centers.

Microsoft is reportedly winding down a 2023 deal to rent AI computing from Oracle and trimming its list of neocloud partners like...

#Microsoft #Oracle #AI Infrastructure
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