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  "id": 19849211,
  "title": "Microsoft rules out cyberattack and AI as cause of global Outlook and Teams outage",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/microsoft-rules-out-cyberattack-and-ai-as-cause-of-global-outlook-and",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-13T18:26:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Arabian Business",
    "slug": "arabian-business",
    "url": "https://www.arabianbusiness.com/business/technology/microsoft-rules-out-cyberattack-and-ai-as-cause-of-global-outlook-and-teams-outage"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Microsoft reveals the cause of its global outage, confirms broad service recovery and rules out cyberattacks and AI as the source of the disruption",
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      {
        "outlet": "Nairametrics",
        "title": "Microsoft global outage disrupts Outlook, Teams, Copilot services",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/microsoft-global-outage-disrupts-outlook-teams-copilot-services",
        "published": "2026-11-13T08:37:48.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "Microsoft ‘deeply sorry’ for global outage, says issue not caused by cyber or AI agents",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/microsoft-deeply-sorry-for-global-outage-says-issue-not-caused-by",
        "published": "2026-11-13T18:43:24.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}