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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BoolSi raises $6M to compile ordinary code into custom chips

Chip-design startup BoolSi Inc. today announced it has raised $6 million in seed funding to build a compiler that turns ordinary software into custom hardware, doing away with the years of digital-logic training that chip design has always demanded. Co-founder and Chief Executive Mihailo Isakov built BoolSi to aim at FPGAs, the field-programmable gate arrays ...

Pramaana Labs raises $27M to make AI prove its answers

Formal verification startup Pramaana Labs Inc. today said it has raised $27 million in seed funding for a system it describes as a compiler for high-stakes artificial intelligence. The product checks an AI model’s answer against the rules of a domain and will not return it unless it can be proved correct. Pramaana is going after ...

AWS launches Continuum to find and fix code vulnerabilities at machine speed

Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched AWS Continuum, a security platform that uses frontier artificial intelligence models to discover, validate and remediate software vulnerabilities across a customer’s environment with limited human intervention. Continuum, announced at the AWS Summit in New York City, is seeking to address what AWS describes as a breaking point in enterprise ...

SentinelOne turns Purple AI loose to investigate threats on its own

SentinelOne Inc. today opened its Purple AI Agentic Investigations capability to all customers, adding autonomous threat investigation that runs without an analyst having to launch it. The feature is available this week as a free trial inside the company’s Singularity Platform. It can work through a threat on its own, from spotting it to deciding ...

Ex-Cisco researchers launch Tenet Security to lock down rogue AI agents

Former Cisco artificial intelligence security researchers have launched a new company to tackle a problem that barely existed a year ago: securing the autonomous AI agents enterprises are handing the keys to their most critical systems. Tenet Security Inc. today formally launched a platform designed to stop malicious AI agent behavior before it reaches production ...

CYGNVS launches command center for crises caused by a company’s own AI

Cyber resilience company CYGNVS Inc. today launched its AI Incident Command Center, a platform built to help organizations manage operational crises caused by their own artificial intelligence deployments. The product extends CYGNVS’ existing out-of-band incident platform to a new category of risk: failures in the models and agents companies are putting into production. Those failures ...

Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls

Voice artificial intelligence startup Bland today revealed that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its research, grow its engineering team and scale its platform into more regulated industries. Founded in 2023, Bland builds AI agents that handle phone calls, SMS and chat. Where much of the market wraps third-party foundation models ...

Okta expands Google Cloud partnership to secure AI agents and the browser

Okta Inc. today expanded its partnership with Google LLC’s Google Cloud with a set of integrations that bring identity governance to artificial intelligence agents and tighten security across the Chrome browser. The deal pairs Okta’s identity layer with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Chrome Enterprise. Enterprises now manage swarms of AI agents the ...

HP debuts AI-powered collaboration lineup at InfoComm 2026

HP Inc. used the InfoComm 2026 trade show in Las Vegas today to roll out a wave of collaboration hardware and software, tying together meeting room compute, video, audio and device management under its Workforce Experience Platform. The launches span new headsets, conference room computers, a video operating system update, a programmable keyboard and a ...

AppViewX targets ungoverned AI agents with new identity security product

AppViewX Inc. today launched Agent Identity Security, a product that discovers, governs and monitors artificial intelligence agents across enterprise environments as autonomous software increasingly operates on sensitive systems without human oversight. The product extends the AppViewX platform, built on the company’s machine identity and public-key infrastructure tools, into AI agent security. It gives security teams ...