Live: Microsoft 'aggressively pursuing' solution to major outage

AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic confirmed they've been affected by the widespread Microsoft outage.

ChatGPT creators, OpenAI, said it was investigating an issue with Microsoft connectors as tools were not working as expected.

Anthropic said it had identified an issue with an upstream provider affecting its Microsoft 365 connector.

Microsoft says it's working to mitigate the outage and is restarting the affected servers.

Reporting with Reuters

Good morning, thanks for joining us today.

If you're one of the many people having troubles accessing your Outlook emails this morning, you're not alone!

Microsoft, the company behind the email platform many people around the world rely on, is having a major outage at the moment.

Microsoft confirmed the outage was affecting Outlook, Teams, Copilot and other platforms.

"We're aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact," the company said.

"We're investigating what's causing these servers to become unavailable while we work to safely return them to service."

Buckle up, we'll bring you more updates as they come to hand.