{"id":5565,"date":"2025-09-25T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2025-09-25T17:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:24:47","slug":"news20250925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/2025\/09\/25\/news20250925\/","title":{"rendered":"News &#8211; September 25, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"326\" data-attachment-id=\"5571\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/2025\/09\/25\/news20250925\/news20250925-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/news20250925.png?fit=1100%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1100,350\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"news20250925\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/news20250925.png?fit=300%2C95&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/news20250925.png?fit=1024%2C326&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/news20250925.png?resize=1024%2C326&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/news20250925.png?resize=1024%2C326&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/news20250925.png?resize=300%2C95&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/news20250925.png?resize=768%2C244&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/news20250925.png?w=1100&amp;ssl=1 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>News for today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Claude in Microsoft 365 Copilot<\/strong>. AI models from Anthropic &#8211; specifically Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.1 &#8211; are now available to Microsoft 365 enterprise customers of Microsoft Researcher and Copilot Studio. e.g., <em>Microsoft\u2019s reasoning agent <\/em>[in Researcher] <em>can now be powered by Claude Opus 4.1. Whether you\u2019re building a detailed go-to-market strategy, analyzing emerging product trends, or creating a comprehensive quarterly report, you can now select your preferred model to power in-depth work. Researcher helps you tackle complex, multistep research\u2014reasoning over not only the web and trusted third-party data, but all of your work content across your emails, chats, meetings, files, and more to deliver highly-skilled expertise on demand\u2014and now you have model choice<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/claude-now-available-in-microsoft-365-copilot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Anthropic<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cerby extended its Series B round by $14 million<\/strong>. Cerby took another $14 million in Series B funding from four new strategic investors who weren&#8217;t involved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cerby.com\/resources\/blog\/why-we-raised-our-series-b-and-whats-next-for-cerby\">May 2025<\/a> round of $40 million. Total Series B is now $54 million. <em>With the Series B financing, Cerby is accelerating product innovation and integrations across the Cerby Application Network, advancing its agentic AI capabilities, and scaling its go-to-market operations in North America and EMEA<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cerby.com\/about-us\/newsroom\/cerby-extends-series-b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cerby<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>KnowBe4 expands public sector presence via partnership with Carahsoft<\/strong>. KnowBe4 and Carahsoft announced a strategic partnership under which Carahsoft will distribute KnowBe4&#8217;s human risk management platform into the public sector via its partners. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowbe4.com\/press\/knowbe4-and-carahsoft-announce-partnership-to-strengthen-public-sector-human-risk-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">KnowBe4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News for September 25: Claude in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Cerby takes another $14 million in Series B funding, and KnowBe4 and Carahsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384585,"featured_media":5571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[712027501],"tags":[712027517],"class_list":["post-5565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-roundup","tag-news-roundup"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/news20250925.png?fit=1100%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcHAk4-1rL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5565"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5574,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions\/5574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}