Paul Stenhouse: Lingering effects of the Microsoft Outlook outage, Anthropic is going public

From Saturday Morning with Jack Tame · 7:00

Show by Newstalk ZB

Microsoft's 365 outage lingers Microsoft says it was seeing "improvements in service availability" as it was slowly bring servers and traffic back online. These errors hit Outlook, CoPilot, Teams. Good news, there's no indication this was a cyber-attack. What caused this? Microsoft hasn't said yet but hinted that it was a "core process" involved in establishing securing connections between users and the server. From reading around sources, it seems that the servers had, or thought they had, a "health issue" and took themselves offline, diverting traffic to servers who were still healthy, but overloading them – a classic domino effect. Even as servers came online, they were so overwhelmed with traffic they failed again. It did do a good job of providing updates, in the sense that they were frequent, they just didn't say a lot and sometimes said things that were almost alarming, like "we're aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact" and "our actions thus far have not provided the anticipated relief". Anthropic, the maker of Claude is going public Want a piece of the action when it hits the market on November 19? Good luck! It's the hottest ticket in town. Could raise up to $90 billion, valuing the company at $1.4 trillion. There is mega demand for these shares, with requests for shares 6x greater than the number hitting the market. Allocations are the hot commodity at the moment! There are reports that investors in mainland China and Hong Kong are being refused an allocation, because the company needs to comply with trade laws that ban "defence" products exports. So Claude is a weapon now? LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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