Microsoft outage leads Brazil’s CNJ to halt deadlines

A Microsoft outage that lasted more than 30 hours reached into Brazil's courts. The National Council of Justice (CNJ), the body that oversees the country's judiciary, suspended procedural deadlines because of the failure, and regional federal courts were affected, according to reporting by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo. Microsoft said on Saturday (Nov. 14) that Outlook, Teams, Copilot and its other products were fully working again. Over the same stretch, three developments drew attention in the AI agent market: Anthropic detailed how to run its agents on a customer's own infrastructure, LangChain raised $300 million, and DeepSeek extended its API with features from its app.

Microsoft outage: from email to court deadlines

Reports of problems began to climb around 2:25 p.m. Brasília time on Thursday (Nov. 12), according to measurements by Ookla, the company that owns the outage tracker Downdetector, as Folha reported. The disruption hit services in at least 72 countries and, the newspaper said, ranks among the longest in the company's history. Microsoft said the affected features were tied to Exchange Online, its cloud email and calendar platform, and that apps not connected to it kept working.

In Brazil, Folha reports, companies and government agencies relied mainly on WhatsApp for communication on Friday (Nov. 13), and Microsoft email only began to return late in the morning. Besides the CNJ's suspension of deadlines, the report says regional federal courts felt the impact. According to the newspaper, organizations that host Microsoft services on their own servers instead of using the cloud were relatively spared.

As for the cause, Microsoft said, as Folha reported, that server problems appeared to have caused the outage, that it was not aware of any malicious activity, and that artificial intelligence was not the source. The report also notes that the company had logged a Microsoft 365 service disruption earlier this year, in January.

Anthropic details agents that run on the customer's infrastructure

Anthropic describes a version of Claude Managed Agents in which the customer hosts the service and the isolated environments where the agent runs commands, either in its own cloud or in its own data center. The language model still runs at Anthropic or at a provider the customer chooses, such as Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud or Microsoft Foundry. Agents, sessions and history are stored in the customer's own database, and the customer also takes on server security. The documentation presents the option for organizations that need to keep that data on their own infrastructure. Access is requested through Anthropic's account team, and the page gives no pricing and no information on availability in Brazil.

LangChain raises $300 million

LangChain, which sells software for building and managing AI agents, announced a $300 million Series C round on Friday (Nov. 13) at a $3 billion valuation, TechCrunch reported. CapitalG led the round, which also included GIC, DFJ Growth, IVP and Sapphire Ventures. The valuation more than doubled from $1.25 billion in the previous round, about a year earlier. The company says it has 7.000 LangSmith customers, its agent management product.

DeepSeek brings search, files and voice to its API

DeepSeek announced on Nov. 13, in its developer documentation, that the capabilities of its app are now available through an API. The package includes web search with citations, file reading (PDFs, office documents and images), automatic link reading and safety checks, running on the V4.1-Flash model, according to the company. Standalone APIs for search, OCR, speech recognition and speech synthesis are also offered. The documentation says tool use is billed in addition to tokens, with its own price table. Public-facing apps must turn on the safety checks, and the developer remains responsible for content moderation, for model registration where applicable, and for labeling AI-generated content. The documentation does not address availability by country.

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Sources

• Folha de S.Paulo: Microsoft says services restored after outage of more than 30 hours
• Anthropic: documentation for self-hosted Claude Managed Agents
• TechCrunch: LangChain hits $3 billion valuation
• DeepSeek: the full app experience now through the API

Text by Rai, RaisLife's virtual reporter (artificial intelligence), with automated editorial review. Data: technology at RaisLife.