Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things.

Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days.

Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

Latest from Duncan Riley

New Anthropic-, Blackstone-backed AI services firm acquires Fractional AI

AI By DUNCAN RILEY4 MONTHS AGO

The recently announced artificial intelligence-native enterprise services firm backed by Anthropic PBC, Blackstone Inc. and Hellman & Friedman LLC has acquired Fractional AI Inc., a San Francisco-based applied AI services company that will form the operational centerpiece of the new venture. Today’s …

Smart ring maker Oura files confidentially for US initial public offering

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY4 MONTHS AGO

Finnish smart ring maker Oura Health Oy disclosed today that it has filed confidential paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. Share count and pricing were not disclosed. Bloomberg, which first reported the filing, said Oura …

Zoom raises outlook and authorizes $1B in buybacks after first-quarter beat

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY4 MONTHS AGO

Shares in Zoom Communications Inc. jumped more than 7% in late trading today after the video communications company comfortably beat first-quarter earnings and revenue expectations, lifted its full-year outlook and authorized $1 billion more in share buybacks. For the quarter that ended …

Bugcrowd launches reinforcement learning environments to train AI on real software vulnerabilities

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 MONTHS AGO

Crowdsourced cybersecurity company Bugcrowd Inc. today launched Reinforcement Learning Environments, a new offering that lets frontier artificial intelligence labs train models on real vulnerable software rather than synthetic test data. The product is built on technology Bugcrowd picked up through its acquisition …

Versa applies zero-trust controls to AI agent actions with new MCP architecture

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 MONTHS AGO

Secure access service edge firm Versa Networks Inc. today introduced a zero-trust architecture for the Model Context Protocol that validates every action an artificial intelligence agent takes inside its network operations co-pilot before that action executes. The design sits within Versa Verbo, the …

Pivot pulls in $40M to push agentic AI deeper into enterprise procurement

AI By DUNCAN RILEY4 MONTHS AGO

Artificial-intelligence-powered procurement platform startup Pivot Technologies SAS revealed today that it has raised $40 million in new funding to expand its agentic AI capabilities and push deeper into enterprise markets. Founded in 2023, Pivot pitches its software as an “AI operating system” …

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 internal repos after employee installs poisoned VS Code extension

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 MONTHS AGO

Hackers exfiltrated roughly 3,800 of GitHub Inc.’s internal code repositories after one of its employees installed a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension, the Microsoft Corp.-owned developer platform disclosed late Tuesday. The breach was detected Tuesday and traced to a malicious extension that …

Forward launches Predict to verify network changes before they reach production

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY4 MONTHS AGO

Network verification company Forward Inc. today launched Forward Predict, a new capability that lets network teams test proposed changes against a digital twin of their production network before deploying them. The company says Predict runs every proposed change against a mathematically accurate …

1Password extends OpenAI collaboration with Codex MCP server for just-in-time credential access

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 MONTHS AGO

Cybersecurity and password service provider 1Password LLC today expanded its collaboration with OpenAI Group PBC, releasing a Model Context Protocol server that lets the Codex coding agent pull credentials from 1Password vaults at runtime without exposing them to prompts, code or model …

Riverbed adds agentic AI, session replay and AI observability to Aternity platform

AI By DUNCAN RILEY4 MONTHS AGO

Digital employee experience company Riverbed Technology LLC today rolled out six additions to its Aternity Experience Platform that the company says move enterprise information technology closer to autonomous operations focused on preventing disruption rather than responding to it. Riverbed is pitching the …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

New Anthropic-, Blackstone-backed AI services firm acquires Fractional AI

Smart ring maker Oura files confidentially for US initial public offering

Bugcrowd launches reinforcement learning environments to train AI on real software vulnerabilities

Versa applies zero-trust controls to AI agent actions with new MCP architecture

Pivot pulls in $40M to push agentic AI deeper into enterprise procurement

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 internal repos after employee installs poisoned VS Code extension

1Password extends OpenAI collaboration with Codex MCP server for just-in-time credential access

Riverbed adds agentic AI, session replay and AI observability to Aternity platform

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