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

PitchBook: US venture funding hits $412.7B in first half as AI deals dominate

AI By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

U.S. venture capital deal value hit $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, nearly 30% more than investors put to work in all of last year — and a small cluster of giant artificial intelligence rounds accounted for almost the entire …

Arkenstone Defense launches with $35M to help startups sell to the Pentagon

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Federal contracting software startup Arkenstone Defense Inc. formally launched today with $35 million in new funding to take on the compliance, security and workforce setup that keeps many commercial technology companies out of the federal market. The company sells a managed platform …

Refiant goes where rivals only promised with a 10 million-token AI model

AI By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Artificial intelligence optimization startup Refiant Inc. today launched Protea, a suite of long-context AI models led by a 10 million-token context window that the company says ranks among the largest ever made publicly available. Context windows determine how much information a model …

DeepFabric ships more than 50 AI agents for supply chain operations

AI By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Supply chain artificial intelligence startup DeepFabric today announced the general availability of an AI agent platform built for supply chain execution, and a roster of enterprise customers is already running it in production. The company’s platform drops specialized agents into a business’ …

Ex-GitHub chief’s Entire opens distributed Git network for the AI agent era

AI By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Entire Inc., the developer-platform startup founded by former GitHub Chief Executive Thomas Dohmke, today launched a preview of a distributed Git network built to let artificial intelligence coding agents clone and push code without running into the rate limits of centralized hosting. …

Amazon launches $25B bond sale to fund AI infrastructure

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. is back in the bond market, this time to raise at least $25 billion for its artificial intelligence buildout, according to Bloomberg. The offering is split into eight parts, senior unsecured notes with maturities running anywhere from three years to …

‘GitLost’ vulnerability let GitHub’s AI workflows leak private repositories

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Researchers at artificial intelligence security company Noma Security Inc. today disclosed a critical prompt injection vulnerability in GitHub Inc.’s new Agentic Workflows feature that allowed an unauthenticated attacker to siphon data from private code repositories by posting a single crafted issue in …

Picus Security launches autonomous platform to validate exposures in one loop

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Cybersecurity validation startup Picus Security Inc. today launched the Picus Autonomous Exposure Validation Platform, a system that merges breach and attack simulation, autonomous penetration testing and exposure validation into a single automated loop. The platform is aimed at a question security teams struggle …

Assail launches Sidewinder, an offensive security AI that fixes its own mistakes

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Autonomous security company Assail Inc. today launched Sidewinder, a rebuilt version of its Ares offensive security platform that runs on a new 31 billion-parameter model designed to audit its own findings and repair its own mistakes without human intervention. Sidewinder is a …

CyberProof launches agentic MXDR to automate two-thirds of investigations

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

CyberProof Inc., a co-managed security services company owned by UST Global Inc., today launched an agentic artificial intelligence service that it says can autonomously handle up to two-thirds of security investigations while leaving human analysts in control of critical decisions. The service, …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

PitchBook: US venture funding hits $412.7B in first half as AI deals dominate

Arkenstone Defense launches with $35M to help startups sell to the Pentagon

Refiant goes where rivals only promised with a 10 million-token AI model

DeepFabric ships more than 50 AI agents for supply chain operations

Ex-GitHub chief’s Entire opens distributed Git network for the AI agent era

‘GitLost’ vulnerability let GitHub’s AI workflows leak private repositories

Picus Security launches autonomous platform to validate exposures in one loop

Assail launches Sidewinder, an offensive security AI that fixes its own mistakes

CyberProof launches agentic MXDR to automate two-thirds of investigations

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