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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AI security startup Grego AI debuts, claims record $250,000 bounty for AI-found exploit

Artificial intelligence cybersecurity startup Grego AI formally launched today with a claimed method of using existing AI models to find critical software vulnerabilities that human auditors and other automated tools routinely miss. Founded in 2024, the company calls its approach Deep Invariant Analysis. The tool scans a full codebase and works out how each module ...

With $50M in funding, Frame Security takes aim at AI-powered social engineering

Human risk security startup Frame Security Ltd. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $50 million in funding to build out its platform, which uses artificial intelligence to harden employees against social engineering and deepfake attacks. Frame pitches its platform as a replacement for quarterly slide decks and canned phishing simulations that still ...

Quiq extends its AI agent platform into voice as enterprise rollouts move past pilots

Artificial intelligence customer service platform provider Quiq Inc. today launched a new voice product and refreshed its brand, betting that customer experience teams are ready to move beyond isolated pilots to scaled production deployments. The new voice capability extends Quiq’s platform into real-time spoken conversations to allow customers to move between voice and messaging channels ...

Google says criminals used AI to build a working zero-day exploit for the first time

Criminal hackers have used artificial intelligence to develop a working zero-day exploit, the first confirmed case of its kind, according to a report released today by Google LLC’s Google Threat Intelligence Group. The GTIG AI Threat Tracker report details how a criminal group used AI to build a Python-based exploit targeting a two-factor authentication bypass ...

Akamai shares surge 26% on $1.8B AI infrastructure deal as earnings meet estimates

Shares in Akamai Technologies Inc. surged more than 26% in late trading today after the cybersecurity and cloud computing company reported in-line first-quarter results and disclosed a $1.8 billion, seven-year commitment from a leading U.S.-based frontier model provider for its cloud infrastructure services. For its fiscal 2026 first quarter that ended on March 31, Akamai ...

Block raises 2026 outlook after first-quarter earnings beat, accelerating gross profit growth

Shares of Block Inc. rose more than 8% in late trading today after the financial services company beat earnings expectations, accelerated gross profit growth and raised its full-year outlook on the back of a deepening artificial intelligence push inside the business. For its fiscal 2026 first quarter that ended on March 31, Block reported adjusted ...

Cloudflare beats on earnings, but 20% AI-driven layoffs and weak guidance send shares down

Shares in Cloudflare Inc. plunged more than 16% in late trading today after the content delivery network and security company beat fiscal 2026 first-quarter estimates but issued second-quarter revenue guidance that fell short of expectations. It also announced plans to cut about 20% of its workforce in a restructuring tied to what it called an ...

‘Infrahub’ maker OpsMill raises $14M to give AI agents a single view of enterprise infrastructure

Infrastructure data management startup OpsMill SAS announced today that it has raised $14 million in new funding to expand its infrastructure data management platform aimed at making enterprise information technology environments ready for artificial intelligence-driven automation. Founded in 2023, OpsMill develops software that gives enterprise infrastructure and network teams a unified, structured view of their ...

Corgi raises $160M at $1.3B valuation to expand AI-native insurance platform

Corgi Insurance Inc., an artificial intelligence-native insurance carrier built for startups, revealed today that it has raised $160 million in new funding at a $1.3 billion valuation to expand its startup insurance products, develop its technology further and move into new verticals. Founded in 2024 and a graduate of Y Combinator’s Summer 2024 batch, Corgi ...

Amplitude shares slide after revenue beat, earnings miss and softer profit outlook

Shares of Amplitude Inc. dropped sharply in late trading today after the analytics company reported a mixed fiscal 2026 first quarter that beat on revenue but missed slightly on adjusted earnings, even as it raised its full-year revenue outlook. For the quarter that ended on March 31, Amplitude reported an adjusted earnings per share loss ...