The Inegration of Open AI and Anthropic Systems May Have Been The Cause of The Microsoft Outage, As Well As Air Traffic Control, And Other Systems Around The World

REPORTER: “There are reports that the FAA was rolling out a new A.I. traffic control system today. Has there been any link between that?” SEC. MULLIN: “We’re looking at that. That’s part of something that obviously, through CISA at DHS, we are we’re taking a look.” https://t.co/E5Cp5FrUZa

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First Microsoft Cloud Services Go Down Globally – Then FAA Radar Telcom Goes Down After SMART AI Rollout

Yesterday morning, Microsoft experienced a global outage affecting 12 of its cloud services. This included Microsoft 365 services such as Teams, Outlook, Copilot, and so on.

It disrupted businesses, government agencies, airlines, hospitals, and millions of computer users worldwide. It left critical email and communications services unavailable for more than 24 hours in some locations.

Airlines, financial institutions and technology companies were also affected. OpenAI and Anthropic reported problems with integrations connecting their AI services to Microsoft’s systems.

By Friday afternoon, Microsoft reported that it had corrected the underlying technical problem and that services were recovering. However, the company acknowledged that some customers were still experiencing intermittent disruptions and delayed email deliveries.

In Britain, courts suspended proceedings, police departments temporarily lost the ability to receive some online crime reports, and hospitals and pharmacies experienced communication problems. Government agencies in Australia, Japan, Singapore and other countries reported interrupted services.

While Microsoft continued recovering its systems, another major technological disruption emerged Friday afternoon.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered a nationwide ground stop at approximately 3:54 p.m. Eastern, halting departing flights across the U.S. because of communications problems involving the nation’s 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC).

The flight tracking site FlightAware lists 9,086 US flights as delayed as of 5:19PM ET. Some flights were already delayed by weather and other problems. The outage could affect over 700,000 people.

When asked if the new rollout of SMART AI at the ARTCCs could be the problem with the radar/telecommunication outage. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin replied, “We’re looking at that (AI).”