Microsoft outage hits AI tools of Anthropic and OpenAI, companies’ Status Page give details

A massive Microsoft outage which disrupted Outlook, Teams, Copilot and other workplace applications has also affected Microsoft integrations used by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Claude-creator Anthropic. Both the AI companies have reported issued with their Microsoft 365 connectors on their respective service-status pages as Microsoft continues to work in order to restore its services. OpenAI said that the new connections to Microsoft connectors could fail and that exiting tools might also not work as expected. On the other hand, Anthropic also reported problems with its Microsoft 365 connectors, attributing the disruption to an upstream provider.

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