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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Deepgram expands Flux to 10 languages with mid-call switching for voice agents

Real-time voice artificial intelligence startup Deepgram Inc. today announced the general availability of Flux Multilingual, an extension of its Flux conversational speech recognition model to 10 languages with real-time language detection and the ability to switch languages mid-call. The extended model is being pitched by the company as the first multilingual conversational speech recognition model, a category it ...

Lookout launches mobile-native tool to expose shadow AI on enterprise devices

Cybersecurity company Lookout Inc. today announced the launch of Lookout AI Visibility & Governance, a new mobile-native solution designed to provide organizations with the visibility needed to discover, govern and secure artificial intelligence adoption across their mobile ecosystem. The new offering provides a missing layer of visibility that allows organizations to identify shadow AI activity on mobile ...

Command Zero opens its autonomous security operations center platform with APIs and an MCP server

Cyber investigations platform provider Command Zero Inc. today released a set of application programming interface endpoints and a Model Context Protocol server for its autonomous security operations center platform that allows customers to drive threat hunts, investigations and remediation programmatically rather than through the vendor’s console. The new endpoints let security operations teams wire Command Zero’s ...

Robinhood shares drop on Q1 miss as crypto trading revenue tumbles 47%

Shares in Robinhood Markets Inc. fell more than 8% in late trading today after the financial services company reported earnings and revenue below analyst expectations in its fiscal 2026 first quarter. For the quarter that ended on March 31, Robinhood reported diluted adjusted earnings per share of 38 cents per share, up a penny from ...

Aranya debuts cluster-scale operating system, partners with Hydra Host on ‘bare-metal AI’

Aranya Inc., a startup building a cluster-scale operating system built to meet demand for the next generation of supercomputer, launched today with major partnerships with top artificial intelligence inference leaders. One of the company’s first partnerships is with Hydra Host Inc., an Nvidia Corp. cloud partner focused on bare-metal deployments. Hydra Host chose Aranya’s flagship ...

Liquid Instruments lands $50M to scale AI-driven test and measurement platform

Software-defined test and measurement startup Liquid Instruments Pty. Ltd. today announced that it has raised $50 million in new funding to accelerate product development, scale up its artificial intelligence-powered platform and expand go-to-market in aerospace, defense and semiconductor verticals. Founded in 2014 with offices in San Diego and Canberra, Australia, Liquid Instruments sells reconfigurable test ...

Silverfort acquires Fabrix Security to bring AI decision-making to runtime access control

Unified identity security company Silverfort Inc. today announced that it has acquired Fabrix Security Ltd., an artificial intelligence-native identity security company, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2024, Fabrix offers an AI-native identity security platform aimed at enterprise identity and access management teams. The company’s offering is designed to help identity and access management teams make faster ...

Phenom adds Plum psychometric science to its agentic AI hiring stack

Artificial intelligence-based human resources company Phenom People Inc. announced today that it has acquired Plum.io Inc., a psychometric-based talent assessments company that measures the durable skills AI cannot manufacture and quantifies workforce potential. Founded in 2012, Plum applies industrial-organizational psychology to predict how candidates will perform on the job. The company’s platform measures behavioral traits, social intelligence, ...

SkyfireAI lands $11M to bring AI autonomy to public safety and defense drones

Autonomous drone startup SkyfireAI Inc. today announced that it has raised $11 million in new funding to accelerate the development of its dual-use, artificial intelligence-native platform for autonomous, coordinated multiship drone operations. Founded in 2022, SkyfireAI offers a platform designed for public safety, defense and other mission-critical organizations that need to respond faster, expand situational ...

NowSecure launches Mobile App Risk Intelligence to expose hidden AI in third-party apps

Mobile app security company NowSecure Inc. today announced Mobile App Risk Intelligence, new capabilities that are designed to give enterprises evidence-based visibility into third-party mobile apps as hidden artificial intelligence features, opaque code and unseen data flows create a growing governance gap. Employees are adopting mobile apps faster than security teams can evaluate them. Often ...