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
Check out today's packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA was hit by a cyberattack,
--Coupang's founder failed to show at parliamentary hearing,
--Vast majority of parked domains foist scams and malware,
--FTC orders Nomad to pay victims after hackers stole cryptocurrency,
--noyb alleges data exposure by TikTok, Grindr and AppFlyer,
--Hackers exploit critica…
"the founders of antifa have arrived." 😂
https://bsky.app/profile/peoplesfabric.com/post/3m3fqdkzces2z
Google's pivot to AI Overviews cut Stereogum's ad revenue by 70%, founder Scott Lapatine says, so the site is shifting toward a subscription-focused model (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/821
Sources: Li Lin, founder of crypto exchange Huobi, and some of Asia's earliest Ethereum backers have raised ~$1B to launch a digital asset trust to buy Ether (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-17/h…
Sources: OpenAI's new fundraising round could value it at as much as $830B; it aims to raise up to $100B and complete the round by the end of Q1 at the earliest (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-new-fu
Sources: Revolut is nearing the completion of a $3B fundraising round that values the company at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-17/revolut-backers-near-en…
Rebecca Heineman, legendary game designer, Interplay co-founder, programmer, and the first formally recognized US Space Invaders champion, died at 62 in October (Ted Litchfield/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus…
Kraken raised $200M at a $20B valuation, after raising $600M at a $15B valuation in Sept.; prior to the two rounds, Kraken raised only $27M in venture capital (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/18/kraken-citadel-securities-ken-griffin-…