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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JetStream Security, Guild.ai and WorkOS land fresh funding amid growing agentic AI infrastructure push

Venture capital funding continues to flow into artificial intelligence and agentic AI governance, control and security as three startups announced new funding yesterday and today, with JetStream Security Inc. raising $34 million, Guild.ai Inc. raising $44 million and WorkOS Inc. raising $100 million. JetStream Security pitches itself as sitting at the intersection of AI adoption ...

CrowdStrike beats earnings and revenue estimates, issues in-line fiscal 2027 outlook

Shares of CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. rose slightly in late trading today after the cybersecurity company reported slightly better-than-expected earnings and revenue in its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and gave an outlook roughly in line with expectations. For the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, CrowdStrike reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.12, up from 81 ...

DeepKeep launches AI agent attack surface scanner to map enterprise risk

Artificial intelligence security platform company DeepKeep Ltd. today launched a new AI agent attack surface scanning and discovery solution that maps the risks associated with each agent within an agentic enterprise workflow. As organizations increasingly deploy nondeterministic, large language model-based agents with access to business applications, tools and data, they are expanding their attack surface ...

Alkira launches partner program to boost services revenue and AI infrastructure wins

Cloud networking company Alkira Inc. today announced the launch of a new Connect Partner Program, designed to help partners solve complex networking and artificial intelligence infrastructure challenges more quickly and profitably. The program has been built to mirror modern enterprise buying motions. Alkira pitches it as its evolution into a partner-first platform company. The Connect ...

Cloudflare warns AI and SaaS integrations are fueling industrial-scale cybercrime

A new report out from Cloudflare Inc. today warns that cybercrime has reached full industrial scale, with attackers weaponizing the openness of the internet and the connective tissue of cloud and software-as-a-service platforms to move faster and more efficiently than ever. The inaugural 2026 Cloudflare Threat Report draws on telemetry from a network that processes ...

Zenity warns of inherent security risks in agentic browsers after Perplexity Comet findings

A new report out today from Zenity Labs, the research arm of agentic security company Zenity Ltd., details a family of vulnerabilities affecting agentic browsers, including Perplexity AI Inc.’s Comet browser, that can enable zero-click agent hijacking, local file exfiltration and even password vault takeover within authenticated sessions. The vulnerabilities, dubbed “PleaseFix,” target a new ...

Cato Networks unveils Dynamic Prevention to stop stealthy, long-running cyberattacks

Cloud networking company Cato Networks Ltd. today announced the launch of Cato Dynamic Prevention, an auto-adaptive threat prevention engine that allows enterprises to proactively block advanced threats using legitimate tools and targets. The new offering continuously evaluates activity in full context and correlates signals from across Cato’s sensors over months of activity. Once malicious behavior is identified, ...

Tess AI raises $5M to expand enterprise agent orchestration platform

Vibe-working with autonomous artificial intelligence agents startup Tess AI revealed today that it has raised $5 million in funding to support the continued development and expansion of its enterprise agent orchestration platform and its seatless, pay-for-impact operating model. Founded in California as Tess Tecnologia Ltda. by Brazilian entrepreneurs, Tess AI is developing an enterprise software platform ...

Asana tops earnings expectations as operating loss swings to profit

Shares of Asana Inc. rose more than 8% in late trading today after the work management company reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter. For the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, Asana reported adjusted earnings per share of eight cents, up from breakeven in the same quarter of the previous ...

AI memory gold rush sparks high-speed bot assault on DDR5 inventory

A new report out today from cyberfraud protection startup DataDome SAS warns that surging demand for DDR5 memory, fueled by the artificial intelligence boom, has triggered a wave of automated scalping activity that is overwhelming online retailers and distorting supply. The report details how bots are now hitting DDR5 RAM product pages nearly six times more ...