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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DHS introduces AI pilots to enhance public safety and immigration processes

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today unveiled its first Artificial Intelligence Roadmap, which details the department’s plan to test the use of AI technologies that deliver meaningful benefits to the American public and advance homeland security. Announced by Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas (pictured) and Chief Information Officer and Chief Artificial Intelligence ...

CrowdStrike and Nvidia form strategic partnership to enhance cybersecurity with AI

Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced a new strategic collaboration with Nvidia Corp. to deliver Nvidia artificial intelligence computing on the CrowdStrike Falcon XDR platform. The collaboration, announced at Nvidia’s annual GTC conference running this week in San Jose, will see CrowdStrike Falcon data combined with Nvidia’s GPU-optimized AI pipelines and software, including Nvidia ...

Dataloop and Nvidia collaborate to enhance AI application development for businesses

Israeli artificial intelligence dataset startup Dataloop Ltd. today announced a new collaboration with Nvidia Corp. to integrate the Nvidia AI Enterprise software platform into its own platform to advance the building and refinement of AI applications for businesses. Dataloop argues that though generative AI could automate up to 70% of all business activities, the road to AI ...

Deloitte introduces CyberSphere to enhance cyber operational efficiency with automation and AI

Technology consultancy firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. today launched CyberSphere, a new vendor-neutral services and solution platform that helps clients simplify their organizations’ cyber program data, workflows, reporting and third-party technologies. Built by Deloitte to help organizations quickly manage risks with the use of automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning, CyberSphere also helps reduce cyber program ...

LeapXpert introduces ‘Maxen’ to transform client relationships with AI

Business communication provider LeapXpert Inc. today announced the general availability of a new generative artificial intelligence solution that improves the productivity of relationship managers and enhances communications with clients. Called “Maxen,” the new AI is designed to produce communications intelligence by fusing data from external communication channels, such as WhatsApp, iMessage, SMS, phone calls, collaboration ...

Elon Musk’s xAI releases Grok-1 architecture, while Apple advances multimodal AI research

The Elon Musk-run artificial intelligence startup xAI Corp. today released the weights and architecture of its Grok-1 large language model as open source code, shortly after Apple Inc. published a paper describing its own work on multimode LLMs. Musk first said that xAI would release Grok as open source on March 11, but the release ...

Google Chrome enhances user security with real-time Safe Browsing update

Google LLC today announced enhancements to its popular Chrome browser that bring new real-time protection to users through the browser’s Safe Browsing feature. Safe Browsing was launched by Google back in 2005 to protect users from identity and phishing attacks by warning users in the browser when they visit malicious sites. That protection is now ...

Despite earnings beat, Smartsheet shares drop 11% after-hours on soft revenue forecast

Shares in Smartsheet Inc. fell more than 11% in late trading today after the management platform provider reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter but fell short on its revenue outlook. For the quarter that ended Jan. 31, Smartsheet reported adjusted earnings per share of 34 cents, up from seven cents in the same ...

Secureworks outperforms with strong earnings amid strategic shift

Shares in Secureworks Corp. rose nearly 6% in regular trading today after the cybersecurity company reported strong beats in earnings and revenue in its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter. For the quarter that ended Feb. 2, Secureworks reported adjusted earnings of eight cents per share, up from a loss of 17 cents per share in the same quarter ...

Opaque Systems announces new product for enhanced AI deployment security

Secure data analytics startup Opaque Systems Inc. today announced early access to a new software solution that addresses data privacy, security and sovereignty concerns in enterprise generative artificial intelligence deployments. Called Opaque Gateway, the new service seeks to address the issue wherein enterprises are grappling with generative AI deployments amid a rapidly evolving regulatory and security environment. ...