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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AppOmni launches Marlin AI to automate SaaS security investigation and remediation

Software-as-a-service security company AppOmni Inc. today launched Marlin AI, a new autonomous artificial intelligence capability built into its platform that handles correlation, investigation and guided remediation of SaaS security alerts without requiring manual analyst workflows. The product is pitched at security teams drowning in alerts from sprawling SaaS estates. Marlin AI runs continuously inside the ...

7AI launches PLAID ELITE fully managed agentic security operations service

Agentic artificial intelligence security startup 7AI Inc. today announced the launch of PLAID ELITE, a fully managed AI-native security operations service. The new service combines autonomous investigation by AI agents with oversight from 7AI security engineers to deliver continuous follow-the-sun coverage without requiring customers to build or scale an internal operations team. It handles alert ingestion, enrichment, ...

Detectify debuts MCP server to let AI agents find and fix vulnerabilities in real time

Application security platform company Detectify AB today launched the Detectify MCP Server, a new integration layer that plugs the company’s security testing engines into artificial intelligence-driven coding workflows so that agents can find, validate and remediate exploitable vulnerabilities in real time. Detectify’s MCP Server is built on the Model Context Protocol, the open standard Anthropic ...

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

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 deal hands the still-unnamed services firm a ready-made delivery team built specifically to ...

Smart ring maker Oura files confidentially for US initial public offering

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 is aiming to list later this year. The company was valued at $11 ...

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

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 on April 30, Zoom reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.55, up from ...

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

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 of Mayhem Security in November and is already in use with large language ...

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

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 company’s AI-powered operations co-pilot and is integrated with the VersaONE Universal SASE Platform. ...

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

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” for procurement, covering sourcing, approvals, purchasing, invoicing, payments, budgets, expenses and reporting in ...

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

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 GitHub’s security team found on the employee’s device. GitHub said the compromise has ...