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Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 are now available in public preview in Microsoft Foundry for Azure customers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-in-microsoft-foundry

Claude now available in Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot
Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 models are now available in public preview in Microsoft Foundry, where Azure customers can build production applications and enterprise agents.

The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew/?utm_source=newsletter

Nach dem Cloudflare-Ausfall: Digital völlig unsouverän
Die Ausfälle von AWS, Azure und Cloudflare haben gezeigt: Das Netz steht auf tönernen Füßen. Der Countdown zum GAU läuft. Ein Kommentar.
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Canary-1B-v2 & Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v3: Efficient and High-Performance Models for Multilingual ASR and AST
Monica Sekoyan, Nithin Rao Koluguri, Nune Tadevosyan, Piotr Zelasko, Travis Bartley, Nick Karpov, Jagadeesh Balam, Boris Ginsburg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14128

Canary-1B-v2 & Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v3: Efficient and High-Performance Models for Multilingual ASR and AST
This report introduces Canary-1B-v2, a fast, robust multilingual model for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Speech-to-Text Translation (AST). Built with a FastConformer encoder and Transformer decoder, it supports 25 languages primarily European. The model was trained on 1.7M hours of total data samples, including Granary and NeMo ASR Set 3.0, with non-speech audio added to reduce hallucinations for ASR and AST. We describe its two-stage pre-training and fine-tuning process with dynamic d…

Even as much of the internet is inaccessible right now, Metacurity appears unaffected. So check out today's issue for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--CISA says it will rebuild with more staff in 2026 to rectify cuts in 2025,
--Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service was hit with 15.7 Tbps DDoS attack,
--Russian telecom Protei was hacked and site defaced,
--Companies warn of inflexibility if UK bans ransom payments,
--A cr…

CISA says it will rebuild with more staff in 2026 to redress cuts in 2025
Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service was hit with 15.7 Tbps DDoS attack, Russian telecom Protei was hacked and site defaced, Companies warn of inflexibility if UK bans ransom payments, A crew of companies reject efforts to weaken encryption, 460k FTSE compromised credentials found, much more

Magic Keyboard fürs iPad Air mit neuer Farbe
Es muss nicht immer ein iPad Pro sein: Wer ein Air besitzt, kann es nun mit einer optisch neuen Tastatur- und Trackpad-Kombi ausrüsten.
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Anthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a new deal with Microsoft and Nvidia, which commit to invest up to $5B and $10B, respectively, in Anthropic (Microsoft)
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/18/microsoft-nvidia-…

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announce strategic partnerships - The Official Microsoft Blog
Anthropic to scale Claude on Azure Anthropic to adopt NVIDIA architecture NVIDIA and Microsoft to invest in Anthropic Today Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announced new strategic partnerships. Anthropic is scaling its rapidly-growing Claude AI model on Microsoft Azure, powered by NVIDIA, which will broaden access to Claude and provide Azure enterprise customers with expanded model choice and new capabilities. Anthropic...

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Source: Microsoft's and Nvidia's investments in Anthropic push its valuation to the range of $350B, up from its $183B valuation after raising $13B in September (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/anthropic-ai-azure-microsoft-nvidia.html

Anthropic valued in range of $350 billion following investment deal with Microsoft, Nvidia
Microsoft announced new strategic partnerships with Nvidia and the AI startup Anthropic.