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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Securonix partners with AI SPERA to bring Criminal IP intelligence to ThreatQ

Cybersecurity company Securonix Inc. today announced a new partnership with cyberthreat intelligence company AI SPERA Inc. to deliver integrated threat intelligence enrichment through its ThreatQ Platform. The partnership sees the integration of Securonix’s ThreatQ data-driven orchestration and investigation capabilities with AI SPERA’s Criminal IP’s real-time IP threat intelligence to give security teams more in-depth context to prioritize ...

Featherless.ai pulls in $20M to scale serverless hosting for open-source AI models

Featherless.ai Inc., a serverless inference platform startup that hosts open-source artificial intelligence models, today revealed it has raised $20 million in new funding to expand its global infrastructure and launch a marketplace for specialized open models. Founded in 2024, Featherless.ai pitches itself as a neutral hosting layer for enterprises that want to run open-source AI ...

Netomi banks $110M to embed agentic AI deeper into enterprise customer service

Enterprise customer experience platform provider Netomi Inc. today announced it has raised $110 million in new funding to expand its agentic artificial intelligence platform and accelerate deployment across regulated, high-volume enterprise environments. Founded in 2016 and formerly known as msg.ai, Netomi offers an agentic AI platform that handles customer interactions across chat, email and voice ...

Atlassian soars, Twilio and Five9 rally as AI adoption powers earnings beats

Shares of Atlassian Corp., Twilio Inc. and Five9 Inc. all jumped in late trading today after the three software companies posted better-than-expected quarterly results, with each pointing to artificial intelligence adoption as a driver of accelerating revenue and stronger guidance. Atlassian led the pack, soaring more than 25% after the bell. Twilio gained about 16% ...

DigiCert debuts AI Trust framework to secure agents, models and content

Digital security company DigiCert Inc. today introduced a new AI Trust framework to help organizations secure AI systems and their outputs, along with new capabilities to help secure autonomous agents and artificial intelligence models. As AI is accelerating innovation at an unprecedented pace, it is also, according to DigiCert, “breaking traditional models of trust.” The ...

OpenMetadata maker Collate launches AI Analytics for chat-driven dashboards

Semantic intelligence company Collate Inc. today announced the launch of Collate AI Analytics, a new chat-based tool that lets data analysts find data sources, write queries and build dashboards from plain-language prompts in a single interface. Collate, the company behind the open-source OpenMetadata project, is pitching the product as allowing analysts to work without prior ...

Meta shares drop after-hours as capex guidance overshadows earnings beat

Meta Platforms Inc. ‘s shares fell more than 6% in after-hours trading today after the social networking company reported strong beats in revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2026 first quarter but raised its capital expenditure guidance for the year and disclosed a sequential decline in users. For the quarter that ended on March 31, ...

Qualcomm shares surge on earnings beat, $20B buyback and data center timeline

Shares in Qualcomm Inc. rose more than 15% in late trading today after the chipmaker reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2026 second quarter and announced a fresh $20 billion share buyback authorization alongside a firm timeline for its long-awaited data center entry. For the quarter that ended on March 29, Qualcomm reported ...

Wiz finds AI has moved from tool to infrastructure, broadening the attack surface

A new report out today from Google LLC-owned cloud security company Wiz Inc. finds that artificial intelligence has shifted from experimental tooling to default cloud infrastructure, with 81% of observed environments running managed AI services and 90% running self-hosted AI software. The State of AI in the Cloud 2026 report used anonymized configuration metadata, AI asset ...

Auvik launches Aurora AI agents to speed ticket resolution and prevent outages

Information technology management software provider Auvik Networks Inc. today announced the launch of Auvik Aurora: artificial intelligence-powered IT agents that are designed to help IT professionals proactively manage, troubleshoot and optimize their networks. The company says the new agent offering was purpose-built for network and infrastructure management and works out of the box with no complex setup ...