Copilot users in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe were briefly locked out of Microsoft’s AI assistant on December 9, 2025, after a surge in traffic overwhelmed autoscaling controls and produced region-specific service failures that were visible on public trackers and acknowledged by...
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