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Microsoft Azure News 29 October 2025 - 18 November 2025

Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic Strike $45 Billion AI Mega-Deal as Claude Commits $30 Billion to Microsoft Azure

Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic Strike $45 Billion AI Mega-Deal as Claude Commits $30 Billion to Microsoft Azure

Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic have unveiled one of the largest AI cloud and chip partnerships to date, stitching together a package worth up to $45 billion and reshaping how frontier AI models are built, trained and distributed. At the heart of the deal, announced today, Anthropic is committing to buy $30 billion of cloud computing capacity from Microsoft Azure, while Nvidia and Microsoft together plan to invest up to $15 billion in Anthropic, the company behind the Claude family of AI models. Bloomberg+3Anthropic+3NVIDIA Blog+3 The move deepens ties between three of the most powerful players in AI infrastructure and models,
Microsoft Azure “Cloud Crash” Leaves Thousands Stranded – Can MSFT Stock Weather the Storm?

Microsoft Azure “Cloud Crash” Leaves Thousands Stranded – Can MSFT Stock Weather the Storm?

Outage Details and Scope Early Wednesday morning, users worldwide began encountering errors with Microsoft cloud services. Tech sites like TechRadar noted a “major outage” affecting numerous platforms – Azure login failures were “knocking out Microsoft 365 services and even Minecraft” techradar.com. Tom’s Guide reported that around 9 a.m. PT simultaneous issues struck Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox Live and more tomsguide.com. Outage-tracker DownDetector (https://downdetector.com) logged spikes of nearly 10,000 incident reports across Microsoft’s offerings. In some regions, employees could not access work applications at all, and Microsoft’s own support portal showed widespread “investigating” alerts. According to Downdetector (a crowd-sourced outage aggregator), the
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