Microsoft blames network upgrade for global outage, citing 'not AI' draws mockery
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-11-14
Microsoft's postmortem of its major outage attributes it to a network capacity upgrade issue surfacing after a recent network change — explicitly not cyberattack or AI/agents related — with services broadly recovered. Ed Zitron mocked the disclaimer ("why couldn't AI fix this?"), and Gary Marcus amplified the take.
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