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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Security training startup Herd Security raises $3M to expand AI capabilities

Security training platform startup Herd Security Inc. today announced that it has raised $3 million in new funding to expand product development across new training categories in human resources and artificial intelligence, optimize its AI-powered video generation capabilities and grow its partnership ecosystem. Founded in 2025, Herd Security offers an agentic AI platform built for ...

Boost Security acquires SecureIQx and Korbit, adds $4M in new funding

Application security startup Boost Security Inc. today announced two acquisitions and an additional $4 million in funding as it builds out what it pitches as an artificial intelligence-native defense platform for software development. The company has acquired SecureIQx, an MIT-founded startup that built a software composition analysis reachability engine and Korbit Technologies Inc., an AI-driven ...

Monday.com relaunches as an AI work platform with native agents

Cloud project management provider monday.com Ltd. today relaunched itself as an “AI work platform,” repositioning itself around context-aware artificial intelligence agents that execute tasks alongside human workers. The repositioning represents monday.com’s most significant strategic shift since going public in 2021, recasting the platform from a tool that helps teams track work to one that performs the work ...

Blitzy raises $200M at $1.4B valuation to deploy thousands of coding agents in parallel

Autonomous software development startup Blitzy Inc. said today it has raised $200 million in new funding on a valuation of $1.4 billion to expand its enterprise coding platform. The company was founded in 2023 by Brian Elliott, a serial entrepreneur and former Army Ranger, and Sid Pardeshi, an Nvidia Corp. master inventor who holds more ...

Supermicro shares rally on guidance after Q3 revenue falls short of estimates

Super Micro Computer Inc.’s shares surged more than 18% in after-hours trading today after the server maker reported a mixed fiscal 2026 third quarter, missing revenue estimates but topping earnings expectations and issuing strong guidance for the current quarter. For the quarter that ended on March 31, Supermicro reported adjusted earnings per share of 84 ...

DigitalOcean raises 2026 and 2027 revenue outlook after AI-driven earnings beat

Shares of DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. rocketed more than 40% today after the developer-oriented cloud infrastructure provider topped Wall Street targets in its fiscal 2026 first quarter. It also lifted its revenue outlook for both 2026 and 2027 on what it called accelerating demand for inference and agentic artificial intelligence workloads. For the quarter that ended ...

WSO2 launches Agent Manager to help enterprises tame AI agent sprawl

Open-source technology provider WS02 LLC today announced the launch of WSO2 Agent Manager, an open control plane for artificial intelligence agents that gives enterprises a unified way to identify, govern, secure and scale agents across environments. The new offering helps organizations move from AI experimentation to production by addressing a critical gap: bringing visibility, control and accountability ...

Dyna Software launches Platform Copilot, an agentic AI tool for configuring ServiceNow

Dyna Software Inc., a company that provides platform governance and health provider for ServiceNow Inc.,  today announced the launch of Platform Copilot, an agentic artificial intelligence tool the company describes as the first to autonomously configure, design and build on the ServiceNow platform. Platform Copilot integrates with a customer’s ServiceNow development instance and applies configuration ...

Palantir beats earnings expectations, raises full-year guidance as US revenue doubles

Shares in Palantir Technologies Inc. sagged more than 2% in late trading today despite the big-data analytics company beating first-quarter expectations and raising full-year guidance for the second consecutive quarter. For its fiscal 2026 first quarter that ended on March 31, Palantir reported adjusted earnings per share of 33 cents, up from 13 cents per ...

Opaque buys post-quantum cryptographic AI tech from Abu Dhabi’s TII

Confidential artificial intelligence platform provider Opaque Systems Inc. today announced it has acquired advanced cryptographic AI technologies from the Technology Innovation Institute, the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council. The acquired technologies add critical capabilities to OPAQUE’s platform: confidential AI model training powered by advanced cryptographic techniques such as multiparty computation and fully ...