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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Saronic raises $1.75B at $9.25B valuation to gear up autonomous ship production

Autonomous ship building startup Saronic Technologies Inc. announced today that it has raised $1.75 billion in new late-stage funding on a $9.25 billion valuation to deliver autonomous platforms at large scale across defense and commercial sectors. Founded in 2022, Saronic is developing autonomous vessels that are designed to address constraints in traditional shipbuilding and naval ...

Depthfirst raises $80M to expand AI-native security platform and train domain-specific models

Artificial intelligence-native security platform startup depthfirst Inc. announced today that it has raised $80 million in new funding to train additional security models across new domains, expand its AI research team and scale up enterprise adoption. Founded in 2024, depthfirst is taking on the issue of a rapidly changing threat landscape where software is developed faster than ...

Linx Security raises $50M in new funding to grow identity and access platform

Identity security and government platform startup Linx Security Inc. revealed today that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its global footprint, scale up enterprise go-to-market efforts and accelerate product development around autonomous identity governance. Founded in 2023, Linx Security offers a platform that is designed to address the growing complexity of ...

Anthropic accidentally exposes Claude Code source code in npm packaging error

Anthropic PBC has accidently exposed the source code for its Claude Code command-line interface tool through a packaging error that led to the inclusion of sensitive files in a publicly distributed node package manager or npm release. Claude Code is Anthropic’s command-line tool that lets developers interact with its Claude artificial intelligence models directly from ...

Acre Security launches Acre Via AI assistant for physical access control systems

Unified cloud and physical security company Acre Security today announced it has opened a research preview of Acre Via, an artificial intelligence agent embedded into its cloud-native access control platform that allows operators to query their security systems, investigate events and manage cardholders using natural language. Via is being pitched as being among the first ...

Axonis launches community-led growth network for enterprise AI adoption

Federated artificial intelligence infrastructure platform provider Axonis Inc. today announced the launch of its community-led growth network, which includes the Axonis Partner Network, Trusted AI Champion and Edge AI Ambassador programs. The new ecosystem is designed to help enterprises move beyond experimentation and into production AI deployments by leveraging partners with domain expertise. Axonis is taking a ...

Cato Networks launches modular adoption model for SASE Platform

Cloud networking company Cato Networks Ltd. today announced a new modular adoption model for the Cato SASE Platform that allows organizations to start with the capabilities they need today and expand over time without sacrificing the advantages of a true platform. Many vendors claim to offer a platform but in practice deliver a collection of separately built ...

Sett raises $30M to grow agent-based AI platform for game studios

Sett, a startup offering artificial intelligence for the gaming industry, said today it has raised $30 million in new funding to accelerate product development and support the global expansion of its platform. Founded in 2022, Sett’s platform is designed to automate content creation and optimization for mobile game studios and addresses the need to continuously ...

OpenAI Codex vulnerability enabled GitHub token theft via command injection, report finds

A critical vulnerability in OpenAI Group PBC’s Codex coding agent could have exposed sensitive GitHub authentication tokens through a command injection flaw, according to a new report out today from Phantom Labs, the research arm of identity and access security company BeyondTrust Corp. Codex is a coding assistant offered as part of ChatGPT that allows developers to interact ...

Huskeys launches with $8M to modernize WAF security with Edge Security Management

Edge Security Management startup Huskeys Security Ltd. launched today with the announcement that it has raised $8 million in funding to scale up its platform and try to accelerate adoption across global enterprise customers. Founded in 2025, Huskeys is seeking to solve a problem the company claims had been hiding in plain sight for decades: ...