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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Apple reportedly developing giant foldable iPad for 2028 launch

Apple Inc. is reportedly developing a giant foldable iPad that could come to market around 2028, according to the latest reports of the iPhone maker exploring foldable devices as the technology matures in Android products. The latest claim comes from the usually reliable Apple analyst Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, who claims that Apple is developing ...

Vapi secures $20M to advance AI voice agent platform and scale operations

Voice artificial intelligence agent startup Vapi announced today that it has raised $20 million in new funding to expand its engineering team and its infrastructure and reach new enterprise customers. Founded in 2023 as Superpowered Labs Inc., Vapi offers a developer platform for deploying AI-powered voice agents. It gives developers access to flexible application programming interfaces ...

Email security provider Sublime Security raises $60M for platform growth

Artificial intelligence-powered email security platform provider Sublime Security Inc. announced today that it has raised $60 million in new funding to support its continued investment in its platform and community. Founded in 2019, Sublime Security offers an email security platform designed to protect businesses from evolving threats such as phishing, malware and business email compromise. ...

OpenAI finally launches screen and live video observation for paying ChatGPT users

OpenAI today announced that it’s finally giving ChatGPT the ability to observe screens and live video to provide comments and feedback, a day after Google LLC launched similar features in Gemini 2.0. The features, which essentially give ChatGPT eyes, were first teased in May at the launch of the multimodal GPT-4o model, with fans waiting for ...

Comparitech reveals widespread privacy gaps in mobile shopping apps ahead of holiday season

A new study out today from tech research site Comparitech delves into the online apps ahead of the holiday shopping period, revealing alarming privacy concerns for consumers. The study analyzed 91 popular shopping apps and discovered that the average app requests 26 permissions, with eight of those classified as “dangerous” by Android standards. Permissions that are classed as “dangerous” ...

Rubrik introduces Turbo Threat Hunting for faster cyber recovery

Data security software provider Rubrik Inc. today announced the launch of Turbo Threat Hunting, a new feature designed to accelerate cyber recovery and allow organizations to locate clean recovery points in seconds. Rubrik Turbo Threat Hunting is focused on allowing customers to immediately identify clean recovery points and swiftly recover from cyber incidents with minimal operational disruption. ...

Cofactr secures $17.2M to expand supply chain tools for high-compliance industries

Supply chain and logistics management platform startup Cofactr Inc. announced today that it has raised $17.2 million in new funding to scale up its go-to-market efforts and grow its supply chain risk management and process tools suite. Founded in 2021, Cofactr offers a platform that integrates procurement automation, supply chain data intelligence and logistics infrastructure ...

New Quest Software updates help accelerate enterprise adoption of PostgreSQL

Systems management, data protection and security software company Quest Software Inc. today announced two updates designed to accelerate the enterprise adoption of the open-source relational database management system PostgreSQL. With the new updates, customers can streamline migrations to PostgreSQL and then optimize its performance and availability. Combined, the two updates help enterprises embrace modern database ...

Dataiku launches generative AI tool for dynamic data storytelling

Artificial intelligence data analytics startup Dataiku Inc. today announced the launch of Dataiku Stories, a generative artificial intelligence-powered data storytelling solution that allows businesses to generate insights and transform company data into visual presentations. Designed to bridge the gap between static slide presentations and enterprise dashboards, Dataiku Stories allows businesses to use simple prompts to discover and ...

General Motors ends Cruise robotaxi business in strategic industry exit

General Motors Co. announced today that its Cruise self-driving car unit is exiting the robotaxi business as part of a realignment of the company’s autonomous driving strategy. Under the realignment, GM said, it will use Cruise technology to prioritize the development of advanced drive assistance systems on a path to fully autonomous personal vehicles. The ...