Closing an Azure OpenAI assistant's retrieval gap didn't take a new identity platform. It took one filter and a narrower assistant.

An Azure OpenAI assistant exposed SharePoint data due to a retrieval flaw, highlighting a critical gap in custom pipelines' entitlement checks.
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Gemini survived when ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok collapsed: Azure is at fault

AI outage 2026: ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok went dark together on September 3 when Azure East US failed, leaving millions ...
Cointelegraph

OpenAI restructures as public benefit corporation; Microsoft secures 27% stake

The move formalizes OpenAI’s ties with Microsoft, granting the tech giant long-term access to its AI models while locking in a $250 billion Azure commitment. OpenAI, the developer behind ChatGPT, has ...

Microsoft (MSFT)’s Outlook and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work Both Broke the Same Day

On August 31, 2026, CNBC reported that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) suffered a widespread Outlook and Exchange Online ...
VentureBeat

Microsoft and OpenAI gut their exclusive deal, freeing OpenAI to sell on AWS and Google Cloud

Microsoft and OpenAI on Monday announced a sweeping overhaul of the partnership that has defined the commercial AI era, dismantling key pillars of exclusivity and revenue-sharing that bound the two ...
eWeek

Microsoft to Report Azure Revenue Quarterly, but Margins Remain Undisclosed

Microsoft will disclose Azure revenue quarterly in fiscal 2027, while Azure-specific margins and OpenAI revenue exposure ...
Ars Technica

OpenAI ends its exclusive partnership with Microsoft

Since Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, the exclusive partnership between the two firms has been one of the strongest and most consequential in the AI industry. Today, though, OpenAI ...