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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Escape raises $18M to expand AI agent platform for offensive security testing

Offensive security engineering platform startup Escape Technologies SAS announced today that it has raised $18 million in new funding to expand its artificial intelligence-agent security platform, including developing agentic penetration testing capabilities and scaling up its engineering and enterprise go-to-market teams in the U.S. and Europe. Founded in 2020, Escape offers an offensive security engineering ...

OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo to expand AI application testing capabilities

OpenAI Group PBC announced today that it plans to acquire testing and security evaluation platform for artificial intelligence applications startup Promptfoo Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2024, Promptfoo began as an open-source framework for evaluating AI prompts and model behavior. It later expanded into a commercial platform used by developers and enterprise security ...

OneTrust expands platform with real-time AI governance and agent oversight capabilities

Governance platform provider OneTrust LLC today announced new capabilities that expand its platform to support real-time artificial intelligence governance that moves beyond traditional compliance checks to continuous monitoring and enforcement of AI systems. The capabilities are designed for data, risk and AI teams to empower organizations to shift AI governance from static compliance workflows to ...

Cybersecurity startup Cylake launches with $45M to build AI-native data sovereignty platform

Cybersecurity startup Cylake Inc. launched today with an announcement that it had raised $45 million in funding to further develop its artificial intelligence-driven platform. Founded by Nir Zuk, Wilson Xu and Ehud (Udi) Shamir (pictured), veterans of Palo Alto Networks Inc. and SentinelOne Inc., Cylake is developing a cybersecurity platform designed for organizations that require ...

Senior-care tech startup Sage raises $65M for platform that monitors resident activity in care facilities

Senior-care technology company Sage revealed today that it has raised $65 million in new funding to improve the quality of life for older adults and their caregivers. Founded in 2020 as Elder Technologies Inc., Sage offers a platform that is designed for use by senior living and skilled nursing providers to monitor resident activity and ...

Samsara shares jump after earnings beat expectations, guidance tops forecasts

Shares of Samsara Inc. jumped more than 11% in late trading today after the internet of things cloud platform provider impressed with earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and provided guidance ahead of expectations. For the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, Samsara reported adjusted earnings per share of 18 cents, ...

Google Threat Intelligence Group warns enterprise systems increasingly targeted by zero-day exploits

A new report out today from Google LLC’s Threat Intelligence Group finds that zero-day vulnerability exploitation remained elevated in 2025 as attackers increasingly targeted enterprise infrastructure and security appliances rather than traditional consumer software. A zero-day vulnerability is a previously unknown software vulnerability that attackers exploit before the vendor has had zero days to fix ...

Uptycs and SAP team up to bring verifiable AI analysts to enterprise cybersecurity operations

Cloud and endpoint cybersecurity startup Uptycs Inc. today announced a new strategic partnership with SAP SE to deploy verifiable artificial intelligence analysts that augment enterprise security teams. The collaboration centers on Uptycs’ AI analyst platform Juno, which acts as “virtual employees.” They’re designed to augment security operation center teams and allow analysts to concentrate on advanced threat ...

AWS introduces Amazon Connect Health with AI agents to reduce administrative burden in healthcare

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the launch of Amazon Connect Health, a new agentic artificial intelligence solution focused on reducing administrative workloads for healthcare providers while improving how patients access care. The platform is designed to automate routine operational tasks, including patient verification, appointment scheduling, medical history review, clinical documentation and medical coding. AWS ...

Okta tops earnings and revenue expectations as identity platform targets AI agents

Shares in Okta Inc. edged up more than 1% in late trading today after the identity and access management company reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and gave guidance ahead of expectations. For the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, Okta reported adjusted earnings per share of 90 cents, up ...