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A Hacker News poster reported that Microsoft Cloud connections had been down for about five minutes, asking whether others were experiencing the same issue. The poster also noted that Microsoft's own status page would not load during the outage.
Developer Autumn-27 released Artex, an open-source multiagent AI penetration-testing framework written in Go, on GitHub in July. By late summer and fall, multiple threat actors were using the tool — which can brute-force passwords, dump databases and abuse APIs — to automate attacks at high speed; Microsoft observed an AI agent go from scanning GitHub for secrets to exfiltrating data from an Azure Key Vault in five minutes. The creator deleted the original repository in late October citing abuse, but forks remain active.
A new price comparison normalizes on-demand H100 GPU rental rates to dollars per GPU per hour across AWS, Azure and neocloud providers such as RunPod, grouping only identical chip variants to avoid mixing SXM, PCIe and NVL models. It finds RunPod Community pricing at $2.69/hour versus Azure's ND96isr_H100_v5 at $12.29/hour, a 4.57x spread that translates to roughly $1,964 versus $8,972 for a month of continuous use on one GPU.
GitHub announced a redesigned Git storage architecture at GitHub Universe that separates storage from compute and limits coordination to reference updates rather than entire pushes. Internal testing showed the system handling 5,000 concurrent agents on a single repository with 7,200 pushes per second while maintaining low-latency reads, and the rollout has migrated 99.99999% of repositories to Azure using scoped write quorums and virtual replicas on Azure Blob Storage.
A researcher detailed five new vulnerabilities in Azure Logic Apps' API Connections feature that allowed full cross-tenant compromise, letting an attacker access another tenant's connected backends such as Key Vaults, Azure SQL databases, Jira, or Salesforce. The researcher says Microsoft paid a combined $200,000 bounty for the findings, following earlier disclosures in the same series about this architecture. The researcher plans to detail the work further in a talk at Blue Hat Asia 2026.
Amazon Web Services reported third-quarter revenue of $45.98 billion, a 39% year-over-year increase that topped the $45.29 billion analysts had expected, according to the company's statement. Operating income for the segment rose 55% to $17.77 billion, also exceeding forecasts, and AWS now represents nearly 23% of Amazon's total revenue, a record share.
On Thursday's CNBC Investing Club 'Morning Meeting,' Jim Cramer said indiscriminate selling following Alphabet's revenue miss and Microsoft's otherwise strong quarter had created buying opportunities in quality tech names. He also discussed Eli Lilly's record-high shares after a strong earnings beat driven by obesity-drug demand, and noted FedEx had raised its full-year earnings outlook despite a softer near-term forecast.
In its latest quarterly earnings, Microsoft broke with longstanding practice and disclosed Azure's actual dollar revenue for the July-September quarter: $33.2 billion, up 48% year-over-year. That figure beat analyst expectations of $32.3 billion and exceeded CFO Amy Hood's earlier guidance of 44-45% growth, edging out Google Cloud's reported $30.7 billion for the same period.
Microsoft disclosed in a regulatory filing that it generated $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI-related commercial arrangements, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ended September 30. That figure equals roughly 11% of Microsoft's $92.3 billion total quarterly revenue, and full fiscal 2026 OpenAI-related revenue reached $24.1 billion. Microsoft also listed $7.2 billion in outstanding receivables owed by OpenAI, up from $6 billion three months earlier.
Microsoft reported $92.3 billion in revenue, up 19% year-over-year, marking its tenth consecutive record quarter. Net income rose 32% to $36.6 billion, driven largely by Microsoft Cloud revenue of $63.9 billion, with Azure contributing $33.2 billion and $10 billion specifically tied to OpenAI. Capital expenditures hit a record $45.2 billion, while Devices and Consumer revenue fell 3%.
Microsoft reported $45.2 billion in quarterly capex and finance leases, below the $50.7 billion analysts expected, while Alphabet's capex of $51.36 billion also fell short of the $55.09 billion forecast. Shares of neocloud firms CoreWeave and Nebius dropped nearly 5% and IREN fell about 3% in extended trading following the reports.
Microsoft posted first-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19 percent, with net income of $33.6 billion, up 32 percent. The company restructured its financial reporting into two new segments, Agents and Infra and Devices and Consumer, replacing its prior three-segment structure, and will now disclose Azure revenue quarterly. Azure brought in $33.17 billion, up 48 percent year-over-year, while Devices and Consumer revenue fell 3 percent, with Windows OEM revenue down 22 percent amid a weak PC market.