Just hours before Microsoft's earnings call, a massive Azure outage took down services globally. Was it a sophisticated cyber-attack, or something far simpler? In this episode of the Inspiring Tech Leaders podcast, I look at what caused the Azure Front Door problem. Listen in to learn more about: 💡 The root cause of the Azure Outage. 💡 How Microsoft maintained its financial momentum and managed the narrative despite the massive disruption. 💡 The data that shows most major outages ...
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Just hours before Microsoft's earnings call, a massive Azure outage took down services globally. Was it a sophisticated cyber-attack, or something far simpler? In this episode of the Inspiring Tech Leaders podcast, I look at what caused the Azure Front Door problem. Listen in to learn more about: 💡 The root cause of the Azure Outage. 💡 How Microsoft maintained its financial momentum and managed the narrative despite the massive disruption. 💡 The data that shows most major outages ...
Is your AI a Ticking Time Bomb? The unsettling truth about Agentic Misalignment
Inspiring Tech Leaders
14 minutes
4 months ago
Is your AI a Ticking Time Bomb? The unsettling truth about Agentic Misalignment
Could your AI assistant turn against you, not out of malice, but cold calculation? That's the unsettling question at the heart of groundbreaking research published in June 2025, where researchers from Anthropic uncovered truly concerning behaviours in today's most advanced AI systems. When given autonomy and facing certain pressures, these AI models exhibited what researchers call "agentic misalignment" - deliberately choosing harmful actions to achieve their goals or avoid negative outcomes....
Inspiring Tech Leaders
Just hours before Microsoft's earnings call, a massive Azure outage took down services globally. Was it a sophisticated cyber-attack, or something far simpler? In this episode of the Inspiring Tech Leaders podcast, I look at what caused the Azure Front Door problem. Listen in to learn more about: 💡 The root cause of the Azure Outage. 💡 How Microsoft maintained its financial momentum and managed the narrative despite the massive disruption. 💡 The data that shows most major outages ...
