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

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1Password brings secure credential access to Anthropic’s Claude

Identity security company 1Password today launched 1Password for Claude, a browser integration that lets Anthropic PBC’s Claude use a person’s stored logins to complete online tasks without those credentials ever reaching the artificial intelligence model. The tool targets a problem that has grown as AI agents begin acting on people’s behalf. To let an agent ...

Ramp targets AI’s fastest-growing cost with expanded token spend tracking

Ramp Business Corporation today expanded its AI Token Spend Management product, giving finance teams a single system to see and control what their companies spend on artificial intelligence across providers. Token spend has become one of the fastest-growing categories of business spending, but finance teams often have little insight into where the money is going. ...

Ledger launches Agent Stack to keep AI agents away from crypto keys

Ledger SAS today launched Ledger Agent Stack, an open-source toolkit that lets developers build artificial intelligence agents that can read balances and draft crypto transactions but cannot move funds without a human signing off on hardware. The Paris-based company, maker of the widely used Ledger hardware wallets, is pitching the release as an answer to ...

OpenAI details GPT-Red, an AI that attacks its own models to find flaws

OpenAI Group PBC today detailed GPT-Red, an internal artificial intelligence system it built to attack its own models and surface prompt injection vulnerabilities before they reach users. Red teaming is the job of hammering software to find its weak points, work that normally falls to human security teams. GPT-Red does it on its own, running ...

Stripe and Advent reportedly make $53B bid to take PayPal private

Stripe Inc. and private equity firm Advent International L.P. have reportedly offered more than $53 billion to buy PayPal Holdings Inc. in a deal that would take PayPal private and place one of the pioneers of online payments under the control of a younger, faster-growing rival. The bidders are not looking to break the company ...

Tenable folds application security into Tenable One exposure platform

Exposure management company Tenable Holdings Inc. today expanded its Tenable One Exposure Management Platform to pull application security risk into the same view as the rest of an organization’s exposure data. By adding static code vulnerability information, the platform now tracks risk from code through to runtime across the attack surface. The addition targets a gap that ...

Sophos launches Fusion, an AI-native ‘defense system’ to unify security tools

Cybersecurity firm Sophos Ltd. today launched Sophos Fusion, a single platform that ties together its security operations, endpoint, network, identity, email and cloud protection. Sophos calls it the industry’s first and most complete artificial intelligence-native cybersecurity defense system. It’s a rebuild of Sophos Central, the platform 625,000 organizations use. Sophos moved it onto one open architecture and ...

Chipmaker Axelera releases Voyager Wingman to speed edge AI development

Edge artificial intelligence chip company Axelera AI B.V. today publicly released Voyager Wingman, an AI assistant that lets developers build and troubleshoot applications for its edge chips by typing plain-language requests instead of digging through documentation. The tool connects to the company’s Voyager software development kit and its full documentation set. Developers can describe the ...

AI DevOps startup MyDecisive launches with $12M and open-source SmartHub

Artificial intelligence DevOps startup MyDecisive formally launched today and announced $12 million in new funding to bring to market an open-source foundation for managing observability data and a commercial suite it says can slash what enterprises spend running production systems. Ari Zilka founded MyDecisive in San Francisco in 2023, backed by a long track record ...

Singularity lands $80M at $400M valuation to build cheap drone interceptors

Air defense startup Singularity Defense Corp. formally launched today, announcing that it has raised $80 million in new funding at a $400 million valuation to mass-produce low-cost interceptors that can knock down the cheap drones and missiles now common on the battlefield. Cost is the problem Singularity says it can fix. An interceptor can cost ...