Entity

Microsoft

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

As of 8 Oct 2026Last evidence 8 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • US bars Microsoft, Adobe, and major IT firms from green card program for skilled foreign workers

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Microsoft and Nvidia unveil Surface Laptop Ultra with Grace Blackwell chip at San Francisco event

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Surface Laptop Ultra Price, Specs Leak Ahead of Microsoft Event: What We Know

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Crypto scammers hijack Microsoft’s official X account to push a fake Clippy token

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

All 4 events and claims involving Microsoft

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 153 mentions on 8 Oct 2026, against 77 on 17 Sept 2026 (+99%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Microsoft yet.
  • Claims 3 claims first reported since 7 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 14% Yes since 24 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

2,077 documents · 321 publishers · 21% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 8 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.205: about 80% 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.

AIGoogleAmazonOpenAINvidiaAnthropicChinaMetaRussiaApple
  • AI · 1,609 shared documents
  • Google · 935 shared documents
  • Amazon · 701 shared documents
  • OpenAI · 659 shared documents
  • Nvidia · 570 shared documents
  • Anthropic · 551 shared documents
  • China · 524 shared documents
  • Meta · 510 shared documents
  • Russia · 340 shared documents
  • Apple · 336 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +920% from 24 Aug 2026 to 8 Oct 2026, between 3 and 176 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Microsoft, day by day.

Market price, cited

14% Yes

priced 7 Oct 2026 · relation: subject of the question

the market: 8% → 14% Yes (+6pts, from 1 Oct 2026 to 7 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

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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.

  • US bars Microsoft, Adobe, and major IT firms from green card program for skilled foreign workers

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Microsoft and Nvidia unveil Surface Laptop Ultra with Grace Blackwell chip at San Francisco event

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Surface Laptop Ultra Price, Specs Leak Ahead of Microsoft Event: What We Know

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Crypto scammers hijack Microsoft’s official X account to push a fake Clippy token

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Microsoft

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Microsoft

Entity.

Evidence
2,077 documents · 321 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 8 Oct 2026
Measured
21% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 Oct 2026
14 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (4)

  • 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

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What the coverage says

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

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.

What it connects to

Related records.

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 8 Oct 2026.