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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Amazon launches Zoox robotaxi service with free rides in Las Vegas

Five years after acquiring autonomous vehicle startup Zoox Inc. in a $1.2 billion deal, Amazon.com Inc. today entered the robotaxi market with the debut of a service in Las Vegas. On debut, rides using Zoox robotaxis are free and available via the Zoox app, which is on both Android and iOS. The service is currently ...

Klarna rises 14.6% in NYSE debut as ‘buy now, pay later’ giant goes public

Shares in Klarna Group PLC closed up 14.6% in regular trading today after the Swedish fintech company made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange. In its initial public offering, Klarna offered around 34.3 million shares at $40 each, raising about $1.4 billion. The shares opened at $52 each before surging to a high of ...

Swimlane expands Hero AI to deliver agentic automation for security teams

Low-code security automation company Swimlane LLC today announced the next evolution to its Hero AI platform designed to bring agentic artificial intelligence automation deeper into security operations. The evolution allows Hero AI to leverage Swimlane Turbine’s catalog of playbooks and integrations in real time, significantly increasing the productivity of security analysts. The company says that evolution marks ...

UK Online Safety Act sparks surge in VPN use and dark web activity

A new report out today from tech research site Comparitech looking at the U.K.’s Online Safety Act highlights rising concerns over censorship, surveillance and the unintended consequences of the law since it went into effect earlier this year. The OSA, ostensibly designed to protect children and curb harmful content online, mandates age verification for adult sites and includes ...

SPLX launches AI Asset Management to map and secure enterprise AI stacks

SplxAI Inc., a security platform for artificial intelligence company, today announced the launch of AI Asset Management, an extension of the SPLX platform that gives enterprises visibility into their AI models, agentic workflows and infrastructure. AI Asset Management combines AI Bill of Materials generation, vulnerability scanning and agentic workflow analysis into a single solution that ...

Red Access raises $17M to deliver frictionless protection for browsers and SaaS apps

Israeli agentless security platform startup Red Access Ltd. announced today that it has raised $17 million in new funding to fuel its U.S. expansion and accelerate product development. Founded in 2021, Red Access offers an agentless security platform designed to transform how organizations protect web sessions. The company says its solution requires no installation of ...

Lookout rolls out Smishing AI to stop social engineering on mobile devices

Cybersecurity company Lookout Inc. today announced the launch of Smishing AI, an artificial intelligence-powered solution that aims to stop mobile-based social attacks that target people rather than systems. The new solution addresses the issue whereby traditional phishing defenses rely on identifying telltale signs such as malicious URLs or mismatched sender details, but they’re not suitable for a ...

Rubrik posts narrower loss and strong revenue growth in second quarter

Shares in Rubrik Inc. sagged more than 4% in late trading today despite the company reporting better-than-expected earnings and revenue in its fiscal 2026 second quarter and giving guidance ahead of what analysts were expecting. For the quarter that ended on July 31, Rubrik reported an adjusted earnings per share loss of three cents, down ...

BlackLine launches Verity AI to create a trusted digital workforce for finance

Financial automation software company BlackLine Inc. today announced the launch of Verity, a new suite of artificial intelligence capabilities that provide finance and accounting teams with a new digital workforce of embedded, auditable AI. Verity has been built on the BlackLine’s Studio360 platform and its unified data layer to ensure integrity, accelarate resolution and provide ...

JFrog unveils AI era platform upgrades for software supply chains

Software supply chain company JFrog Ltd. today announced a new range of product releases that it’s calling a turning point in how enterprises deliver, secure and govern artificial intelligence software. The new releases, announced at the JFrog swampUP 2025 conference in Napa, California, include JFrog Fly, JFrog AppTrust, a new Evidence Ecosystem, agentic remediation capabilities and the JFrog AI ...