AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web
Error 1016 kept the chatbot quiet for 100 minutes while a separate resilience drill swallowed suggestion pills
Microsoft has quashed fears of an AI uprising after its Copilot service experienced connectivity issues overnight. The copilot.microsoft.com website went down for an hour and 40 minutes, returning an error message to users trying to interact with the bot. This outage coincided with a resilience test conducted by the Microsoft 365 Copilot team, which inadvertently disabled access to Copilot Chat's suggested prompts for some users.
The company acknowledged the issue and confirmed it had been resolved by applying a configuration fix. Microsoft stated that it would review its internal test procedures to prevent similar disruptions in the future. The incident has left observers questioning AI's reliability when it struggles to maintain basic functionality.
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