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FTSE 100 ends day higher as Microsoft outage blamed on load, Anthropic files massive IPO
London’s main stock index closed up 0.4% at 10,902.56 on Friday. Microsoft said a surge in demand, not a cyber attack, caused its Outlook outage. AI firm Anthropic filed to sell 825 million shares, potentially generating $64.4 billion in gross proceeds.
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London residents lose Outlook, Teams and Copilot for over ten hours
An outage that began on 29 July 2026 kept Outlook, Teams and Copilot offline across London for more than ten hours. Downdetector recorded a peak of about 140,000 Outlook reports before the number fell to 28,000. Microsoft says the cause was elevated load, not a security breach, and services are now partially restored.
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