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A Microsoft services outage is affecting connectors used by both OpenAI and Anthropic, The Independent reports. Microsoft says it is routing traffic away from affected infrastructure and restarting servers as it works to restore service.
Why it mattersThe report also cites more than 97,000 Downdetector reports about Outlook problems at one point. Those are user reports, not a count of confirmed individual outages. For people who rely on AI tools to connect with Microsoft 365, the trouble reaches beyond email and Teams.
Discuss: When an AI assistant depends on workplace connectors, should its provider be expected to offer a useful fallback when Microsoft services fail, or is that the customer’s responsibility?
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