
Outlook down on November 12: failed health checks overloaded Microsoft servers
Outlook went down on 12 November 2026 after Microsoft servers failed automated health checks; services were restored after more than 130,000 users were hit.

Outlook went down on 12 November 2026 after Microsoft servers failed automated health checks; services were restored after more than 130,000 users were hit.

AST SpaceMobile says intermittent nationwide satellite-to-phone service via AT&T and Verizon will switch on in the US before end-2026, after Q3 revenue of $42.3 million.

Cognizant set up a 25,000-strong Claude Frontier Capability Group and a managed service to run Anthropic's Claude for clients on 10 November 2026.

IBM and Microsoft announced Imagine Enterprise on 10 November 2026, an AI agent platform with over 6,000 IBM agents and assets on Microsoft Azure.

CoreWeave reported Q3 revenue of $3.66 billion on 10 November 2026, up 168%, raised its 2026 guidance and put its backlog at $132.5 billion; its loss widened.

Enghouse Systems agreed on 10 November 2026 to buy telecom billing software maker MIND CTI for $1.30 a share in cash, about $25.4 million, a 42% premium.
Ashwini Vaishnaw launched the Semicon 2.0 portal on 6 November 2026 and approved 12 ECMS projects worth Rs 7,503 crore, expected to create 7,127 direct jobs.

Morgan Stanley agreed on 9 November 2026 to buy digital transfer agent Vinyl Equity for Morgan Stanley at Work; terms undisclosed, closing expected in Q1 2027.

RateGain's Q2 FY27 net profit rose 46.5% to Rs 74.72 crore and revenue 152.6% to Rs 745.4 crore, results released on 6 November show, as Sojern is consolidated.

Crisil expects India's data centre capacity to grow about fivefold to 7.5 GW by March 2030, drawing over Rs 3 lakh crore; power supply is the main risk.

Elon Musk said on 6 November 2026 that Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production in Texas around mid-2027 to build more Cybercab robotaxis.

Qualcomm's fiscal Q4 2026 revenue was about $10.4 billion as data-centre sales reached about $650 million and car-chip revenue rose 89%, while handset chip sales fell 26%.

KKR, Singtel and Tata Communications are reported to be selling data centre firm STT GDC India, with 613 MW of capacity, at over $5.5 billion.

Salesforce agreed on 2 November 2026 to buy Cresta, a voice AI firm for customer calls, reportedly for about $2.7 billion, to add voice agents to Agentforce.

Cloudflare reported Q3 2026 revenue of $782.5 million on 5 November, up 39%, its fastest growth in nearly four years, with a record 158,000 new paying customers.

AMD's data-centre revenue rose 97% to $8.5 billion in Q3 2026, reported on 3 November, but a $1.1 billion charge tied to OpenAI and Meta warrants cut profit.

Apple lowered some engineers' daily AI spending caps from $300 to $200 in October and is weighing deeper cuts, Bloomberg reported on 4 November 2026.

Palantir's US commercial revenue rose 148% to $984 million in Q3 2026, passing US government revenue for the first time; total revenue grew 96% to $2.31 billion.

Dun & Bradstreet's AI Momentum Survey, released on 2 November 2026, found 69% of Indian businesses plan to raise AI spending, but only 3% say their data is fully AI-ready.

Kioxia guided flat operating profit of about 2 trillion yen for October-December after a record quarter; its shares fell nearly 16% on 2 November 2026.

A Rhodium Group report covered on 2 November 2026 says India has over $300 billion in AI data centre commitments, but subsidised GPUs run at about 20% use.

Oracle launched a $10 billion share sale and a $10 billion bond sale on 2 November 2026 for AI build-out, days after capping new fundraising at $20 billion.

LTM, formerly LTIMindtree, launched GCC Origin on October 28, 2026, a standalone unit to build, run and hand over AI-focused Global Capability Centres in India.

Salesforce agreed on 29 October 2026 to buy Rune Technologies, maker of the TyrOS military logistics software, to extend its defence business; reports put the price at $375 million.

The CCI on October 31, 2026, cleared Xavier Niel's Vega SAS to buy a 16.2% stake in Vodafone Group from e& for about £4.4 billion.

Machine-to-machine SIMs rose by about 4.35 million in September 2026, twice the human additions, TRAI data shows; Airtel holds 61.16% of M2M lines.

Speech AI firm Deepgram said on 29 October 2026 it is acquiring Daily, maker of the open-source Pipecat voice-agent framework; terms were not disclosed.

US reseller Core 4 Solutions listed a used 300-rack AI cluster with up to 9,600 Nvidia A100 chips on eBay for $59.7 million in late October 2026; the listing has since ended.

ServiceNow shares fell 27% on October 29, 2026, their worst day on record, as a slight EPS miss and slower backlog guidance overshadowed 21% growth.

Amazon said on October 29, 2026 AWS revenue grew about 39% to roughly $46 billion in Q3, while cash capex hit $75.9 billion and earnings missed.

HCLTech on October 28, 2026 launched an AI-powered nano Global Capability Centre offering on AWS, anchored at its Lucknow campus, for firms stuck at AI pilots.

Guidewire agreed on October 27, 2026, to buy London's hyperexponential for $1.7 billion in cash plus up to $400 million in revenue-linked payments.

HCLTech completed its €9 million purchase of Croatian automation firm Robotiq.ai on October 26, 2026, to add software robots to its AI agent platform.

Data centres lead India's announced private investments since April 2024 with Rs 19.14 trillion across 116 projects, a 360 ONE analysis of CMIE data shows.

Cognizant agreed on October 21, 2026 to buy DyFlex Solutions, an Australian SAP partner with over 300 staff; terms were not disclosed, with closing due in Q1 2027.

ABB's Q3 2026 orders rose 40% to a record $12.1 billion on triple-digit data centre growth, but an earnings miss sent its shares about 5% lower.
Madhya Pradesh got about Rs 5,800 crore of chip and electronics proposals at its Indore summit from 23 October 2026 and gave land LoIs worth Rs 9,625 crore.

Coforge's Q2 FY27 revenue rose 53.6% to Rs 6,170.8 crore and profit 56.5% to Rs 588 crore on 23 October 2026, with a record $1.04 billion in new orders.

Researchers at Group-IB and NyxLab said on October 21, 2026 that a hacker tied to the name k0t broke into exposed Fortinet and Palo Alto devices and exposed over 70,000 credentials.

Rivian has bought UK AI start-up Third Dimension, whose world models turn video into 3D scenes, to test self-driving software, reports said on October 22, 2026.

Arda, co-founded by ex-OpenAI research chief Bob McGrew, raised $230 million at a $1.5 billion valuation on October 20, 2026 for AI that reprograms factory lines.

Mach9 raised a $34 million Series A on October 21, 2026, led by First Round and Bessemer, for AI software that turns site scans into engineering drawings.

Chip-tool maker Lam Research reported record revenue of $8.22 billion on October 21, 2026 and guided to $8.6 billion, but shares fell about 6% after hours.

PHP's security team will patch two critical remote code execution flaws on October 21, 2026, at 14:00 UTC; servers on PHP 8.1 or older will not get an official fix.

Supermicro said on October 20, 2026 it expects fiscal Q1 2027 revenue of $18.5-19.5 billion, about $4 billion above guidance, on AI server demand.

Stellantis began series production of Leapmotor's B10 electric SUV at its Zaragoza plant in Spain on October 16, 2026, the first of several models planned there.

L&T Technology Services reported Q2 FY27 revenue of Rs 3,040.4 crore on October 19, 2026, up 12.1%, with AI-related deals making up over half its large wins.

Uttar Pradesh has gathered 810 of a planned 1,000 acres for a data centre and IT hub in Bundelkhand's BIDA township, officials said on October 16, 2026.

Autodesk's 2026 State of Design & Make report, released 13 October, found 64% of Indian firms near or at their AI goals, but 40% cite a lack of technical skills.

TCS launched its Industrial Intelligence Foundry on October 15, 2026, an AI offering for manufacturers that it says can cut new-product timelines 25% and lift productivity 20-25%.

IT services firm LTM reported Q2 FY27 revenue of about Rs 11,808 crore, up 13.6% a year, on October 16, 2026; profit fell 5% on quarter and order inflow eased to $1.26 billion.

Tech Mahindra said on October 15, 2026 its Q2 net profit rose 32.7% to Rs 1,586 crore, deal wins hit $1.02 billion, and its board proposed a 1:1 bonus issue.

Honeywell launched Forge Cognition on 14 October 2026, an AI agent and digital twin platform for buildings built with Nvidia and Dell; humans stay in control.

SolarWinds launched Avior on 14 October 2026, an agentic AI system that automates first-line IT operations with repeatable execution and human approvals.
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