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Anthropic’s IPO targets $1.8–2 trillion valuation — leaked prospectus shows $4.6B 2025 revenue, $8B operating loss, $518B in compute obligations — public filing expected around October 25 Anthropic confidentially filed its S-1 in June 2026. The leaked numbers are stark: $4.6B in 2025 revenue growing at aggressive pace, offset by an $8 billion operating loss, …

We identified that an app, flow, or agent in your environment utilizes a connection to the Azure DevOps connector that was created prior to September 1, 2024. These connections use a legacy app registration method for authentication, which is being removed. Once removed, any flow, app, or agent using those connections will no longer be …

Beginning with the October 2026 security update, Windows 11, versions 26H2, 25H2, and 24H2, along with Windows Server 2025 enforce restrictions on generating NTLMv1-derived credentials for Single Sign-On by default. This planned security-hardening change is part of the boarder Microsoft effort to phase out NTLM. Microsoft originally documented the change in August 2025. This change …

On October 14, 2026, the Word Online (Business) connector will remove its dependency on temporary, pre-authorized download URLs. This change improves the security for file access in SharePoint and OneDrive scenarios by requiring authenticated access for generated document content. Message ID: MC1508992 Published: Oct 15, 2026 Service: Power Platform Tag: User impact, Admin impact How …

We are announcing the ability to choose the data sources AI-powered Data Enrichment uses, including CRM notes in Dynamics 365 Apps. This feature will reach general availability on October 23, 2026. Message ID: MC1509121 Published: Oct 15, 2026 Service: Dynamics 365 Apps Tag: New feature How does this affect me? This feature enables admins to …

Automatic zone balance for Virtual Machine Scale Sets is now generally available. This feature continuously monitors scale sets deployed across availability zones and automatically redistributes VM instances when zonal imbalances occur. This helps reduce the risk that a single-zone outage disproportionately affects an application. Azure update ID: 576334 Published: Oct 15, 2026 Status: Launched Timeline: …

Microsoft is returning Application Virtualization (App-V) server to extended support (as part of the Fixed Lifecycle policy) for an additional three years, through October 9, 2029. This extension gives your organization additional time to continue operating your existing App-V server deployments while evaluating a longer-term application delivery strategy. The long-term plan is to adopt Azure …

Standard service endpoint, a new capability in the Azure Private Link family, provides a scalable and secure approach for connecting Azure IaaS workloads to Azure PaaS services. Standard service endpoint addresses the manageability, and the scale limitations of traditional service endpoints by using Public IP addresses as network identifiers and integrating with network security perimeter. …

Azure Files customers can now copy and synchronize file share data across storage accounts, Azure regions, and subscriptions within the same tenant using Azure Storage Mover. Schedule incremental transfers to maintain secondary copies that can support business continuity scenarios, copy data across regions, consolidate file shares, or place data closer to applications and analytics workloads. …

Summary Starting January 15, 2027, Intune will end support for DNS CNAME auto-discovery in Windows MDM-only enrollment. Organizations using this must have users manually enter the Microsoft enrollment server URL. Existing devices and other enrollment methods remain unaffected. Update enrollment procedures accordingly. Message ID: MC1509780 Published: Oct 15, 2026 Service: Microsoft Intune Tag: User impact, …