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The useful composition is the reverse, and it is a warning: the entry requires 'at least one (1) of the following Microsoft products and services', including 'Azure OpenAI Service', so the entrant funds the inference before any prize exists.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"the prize cannot buy compute at all: USD 12,000 of Microsoft Store gift cards across nine winners is a consumer store balance, and the work requires Azure OpenAI or Copilot Studio usage the entrant pays for.","source":"https://microsoft.github.io/agent-academy/events/hackathon/OFFICIAL_RULES"}],"limits_note":"the prize cannot buy compute at all: USD 12,000 of Microsoft Store gift cards across nine winners is a consumer store balance, and the work requires Azure OpenAI or Copilot Studio usage the entrant pays for.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"the prize cannot buy compute at all: USD 12,000 of Microsoft Store gift cards across nine winners is a consumer store balance, and the work requires Azure OpenAI or Copilot Studio usage the entrant pays for.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"The record's limits field says the work needs Azure OpenAI or Copilot Studio usage the entrant pays for, which implies a billing account, but no evidence row states a card requirement, a hold, a phone number or an ID document: unknown.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://microsoft.github.io/agent-academy/events/hackathon/OFFICIAL_RULES","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'The total Approximate Retail Value (ARV) of all prizes: $12,000.00 USD'; 'A Microsoft Store Gift Card. Approximate Retail Value (ARV) $1,500.00 USD'; 'To enter, you must be eighteen (18) years of age or older'; 'Void in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Region of Crimea, Russia'; 'Entry Period ... May 12, 2026 ... June 2, 2026'; page 200"}],"verdict":"trial-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"A refutation of a premise brief, which names 'Microsoft and AWS hackathon credits' as a thing to find. On this page there are none: the prize is gift cards and the platform cost sits with the entrant. Two explanations were considered: Microsoft shifted hackathon rewards from Azure credit to store credit, or this particular contest is a curriculum-marketing event rather than a compute programme. The entry requirements quote the Agent Academy curriculum in three of the four criteria, which supports the second. The AWS half of the brief's premise is separately recorded: the AWS and NVIDIA hackathon requires 'teams of enterprise professionals' for its $100 credit, which is a fails-identity result. What would change this record is a Microsoft hackathon whose rules include an Azure credit line; none was found in one search.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"hackathon-credit","free_tier_kind":"prize","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}