Microsoft: news, timeline and key numbers

Microsoft appeared in several technology stories in October. On 2026-10-12, KFF Health News reported on an investigation into a private Slack chat room run by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Trump administration health officials had used it for over a year to work with Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Apple and Google on federal policy for artificial intelligence in healthcare. The investigation drew on thousands of internal messages, meeting transcripts and recordings. It found that the closed forum gave industry leaders direct access to top regulators.

On 2026-10-20, a separate report said Anthropic was struggling to secure enough cloud computing capacity from Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft. The companies increasingly see the maker of Claude as a competitor rather than only a customer. Even that spending was reportedly not enough, which pushed Anthropic to lease its own data centers and work with third-party operators.

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