Entity

Microsoft

The world's largest software company; runs the Azure cloud and is OpenAI's principal backer.

As of 19 Oct 2026Last evidence 19 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Neocloud operator Nscale’s IPO plans could be at risk after Microsoft cancels UK data center project

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft's promises

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Microsoft disrupts phishing network behind more than a billion scam messages

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Microsoft Patches Record 1,413 Vulnerabilities, Including Exploited Windows Zero-Day

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Microsoft’s Nairobi engineering hub faces closure as Kenya moves to protect jobs at US tech giant

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 5 events and claims involving Microsoft

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 131 mentions on 18 Oct 2026, against 114 on 27 Sept 2026 (+15%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 18 Oct 2026 (3 changes recorded since 8 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 18 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Will Microsoft be the third-largest company in the world by market cap on October 31?” moved from 8% to 20% Yes since 3 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

3,018 documents · 378 publishers · 3% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 19 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.027: about 97% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Microsoft

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

AIGoogleOpenAINvidiaAmazonAnthropicMetaAppleChinaCopilot
  • AI · 2,327 shared documents
  • Google · 1,301 shared documents
  • OpenAI · 1,025 shared documents
  • Nvidia · 935 shared documents
  • Amazon · 925 shared documents
  • Anthropic · 788 shared documents
  • Meta · 727 shared documents
  • Apple · 489 shared documents
  • China · 480 shared documents
  • Copilot · 449 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 131 mentions on 18 Oct 2026 with 114 on 27 Sept 2026 (+15%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +1538% from 3 Sept 2026 to 18 Oct 2026, between 3 and 207 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Microsoft, day by day.

Market price, cited

20% Yes

priced 19 Oct 2026 · relation: subject of the question

the market: 8% → 20% Yes (+12pts, from 1 Oct 2026 to 19 Oct 2026)

on “Will Microsoft be the third-largest company in the world by market cap on October 31?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about Microsoft

“Will Microsoft be the third-largest company in the world by market cap on October 31?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/01627f291d33eea806274cf3 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name microsoft.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Microsoft

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Neocloud operator Nscale’s IPO plans could be at risk after Microsoft cancels UK data center project

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft's promises

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Microsoft disrupts phishing network behind more than a billion scam messages

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Microsoft Patches Record 1,413 Vulnerabilities, Including Exploited Windows Zero-Day

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Microsoft’s Nairobi engineering hub faces closure as Kenya moves to protect jobs at US tech giant

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

Walk the record from Microsoft

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Microsoft

Entity.

Evidence
3,018 documents · 378 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 12 Apr 2026, last seen 19 Oct 2026
Measured
3% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
19 Oct 2026
15 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (5)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

Watch this

What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Microsoft, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Other markets materially about Microsoft

Markets whose question is about Microsoft or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Microsoft and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

1 market past its stated close date is not shown as open: “Will Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) hit (HIGH) $547.50 Week of October 12 2026?” (closed 18 Oct 2026).

What it connects to

Related records.

Recorded history

  • 18 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 17 Oct 2026

  • 18 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 17 Oct 2026

  • 17 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 2 Oct 2026

3 changes recorded since 8 Oct 2026, newest first.

Ask about MicrosoftWatch Microsoft

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 19 Oct 2026.