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

Latest from Duncan Riley

AI skills in cybersecurity job postings doubled as junior hiring stalls

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

The AI Workforce Consortium today reported that the share of cybersecurity job postings across the Group of Seven economies that ask for artificial intelligence skills doubled over the year, and junior hiring has not moved with them. This was the first in …

Rivian spinout Also raises $150M to take its small EVs autonomous

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Small electric vehicle maker Also Inc. said today it has raised $150 million in a Series D round to accelerate its work on autonomous driving. The money will fund several self-driving vehicle formats at once, all of them built on the electric …

Stripe buys AI model router OpenRouter in reported $7.5B deal

AI By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Stripe Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence model routing startup OpenRouter Inc. in a deal reported at $7.5 billion or more. Neither company disclosed terms and the reported numbers do not agree. The New York Times said $7.5 …

Harness launches AI agents that triage and patch vulnerabilities

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Software delivery platform provider Harness Inc. today launched a set of artificial intelligence agents that find software vulnerabilities and write the patches. Developers approve the fixes before anything ships. AI SAST runs a deterministic static scanner, then applies an AI layer to strip …

Criminal AI tool Kriminal is mostly just Grok with a jailbreak, ThreatDown finds

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

ThreatDown said in new research published today that Kriminal, one of the newest and most popular tools in the criminal artificial intelligence market, owns almost nothing it sells. The service runs on SpaceXAI’s Grok, rented from the same legitimate AI industry it …

Adronite launches Codistry AI coding platform, claims half the token cost

AI By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Adronite Inc. today launched Codistry, an artificial intelligence coding platform for large enterprise codebases. The platform runs on Adronite’s Context Engine, or ACE, which the company is seeking a patent for. ACE builds a relational map of a codebase and keeps it …

Cribl buys Radiant Security’s AI SOC tech in second security deal of 2026

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Telemetry data company Cribl Inc. today said it has acquired technology assets from artificial intelligence security operations startup Radiant Security Inc. The purchase covers the intellectual property behind software that triages, investigates and resolves security alerts on its own. Terms were not …

Prevalent AI raises first outside capital in nine years with $22M round

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Cybersecurity data company Prevalent AI Ltd. today said it has raised $22 million in growth funding, the first primary capital it has taken since being founded nine years ago. Prevalent AI’s product is a data fabric that reaches into hundreds of separate …

Brinqa buys PlexTrac to add penetration testing validation to exposure management

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Exposure management company Brinqa Inc. today announced it has acquired offensive security validation and reporting platform company PlexTrac Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The purchase adds a step Brinqa’s platform did not have. Brinqa collects findings from scanners, cloud accounts and application …

NLPatent rebrands as Clerq, launches agentic patent research workflows

AI By DUNCAN RILEY2 MONTHS AGO

Toronto patent research startup NLPatent rebranded as Clerq today and launched its first agentic workflows. The software runs a full patentability analysis in about 10 minutes. The company says every conclusion arrives with citations. That work normally takes days or weeks, and firms …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

AI skills in cybersecurity job postings doubled as junior hiring stalls

Rivian spinout Also raises $150M to take its small EVs autonomous

Stripe buys AI model router OpenRouter in reported $7.5B deal

Harness launches AI agents that triage and patch vulnerabilities

Criminal AI tool Kriminal is mostly just Grok with a jailbreak, ThreatDown finds

Adronite launches Codistry AI coding platform, claims half the token cost

Cribl buys Radiant Security’s AI SOC tech in second security deal of 2026

Prevalent AI raises first outside capital in nine years with $22M round

Brinqa buys PlexTrac to add penetration testing validation to exposure management

NLPatent rebrands as Clerq, launches agentic patent research workflows

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