Back To The Fax Machine: Microsoft's Meltdown Exposes The Agentic Economy's Weakest Link

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Back To The Fax Machine: Microsoft's Meltdown Exposes The Agentic Economy's Weakest Link Traders reached for fax machines, Japan's finance ministry pinned paper notices to the wall, and the AI assistants meant to automate the office went dark right along with the inbox. Hang in there clippy... For more than 18 hours, the AI agents Silicon Valley says will soon do your job couldn't read your email, because nobody could. A Microsoft 365 failure that began Thursday knocked out Outlook for businesses and governments in more than 70 countries and took Microsoft's own Copilot down with it , along…

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