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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Biden Administration to implement new AI regulations on tech companies

The Biden administration is reportedly planning to apply new rules related to artificial intelligence on artificial intelligence and cloud companies that will result in their being required to report activities to the government. The first new rule reportedly involves the White House planning to use the Defense Production Act, a U.S. federal law that allows the ...

No intentional deception found in Cruise’s handling of October accident

Cruise LLC, the self-driving car subsidiary of General Motors Co., today released the findings of an internal report conducted by law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan into an accident involving one of its vehicles in October, and some of the findings are surprising. The accident in October saw one of Cruise’s robotaxis in San Francisco drag ...

To comply with EU law, Apple opens door to third-party app stores in Europe

Apple Inc. today announced changes to iOS, Safari and its App Store in the European Union to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act, most notably allowing for third-party app stores in Europe in the upcoming iOS 17.4 update scheduled for release in March. The changes include more than 600 new application programming interfaces, expanded ...

Western Digital shares drop despite strong beats in revenue, earnings and outlook

Shares in Western Digital Corp. dropped by nearly 5% in late trading despite the drive manufacturer and data storage company beating every metric across the board, including revenue, earnings and outlook, in some cases by a big margin. For the fiscal second quarter, Western Digital reported an adjusted earnings per share loss of 69 cents, ...

NetScout revenue and earnings smash analyst forecasts

Shares in NetScout Systems Inc. rose more than 6% in regular trading today after the cybersecurity company smashed analyst forecasts for revenue and earnings in its fiscal third quarter. For the quarter that ended Dec. 31, NetScout reported adjusted net income of 73 cents per share, down from $1 per share in the same quarter of last ...

Rapid growth in AI and cloud topics evident in latest O’Reilly annual report

A new report released today by O’Reilly Media Inc. finds, not surprisingly, that there was an unprecedented surge of interest in generative artificial intelligence in 2023, based on usage metrics from the O’Reilly Learning Platform. Last year, O’Reilly saw a 3,600% increase in topics relating to generative AI and generative pretrained transformer models, or GPTs. Natural language processing ...

Tesla shares drop on missed earnings and revenue in fourth quarter

Shares in Tesla Inc. dropped by over 4% in late trading after the electric car maker missed on both earnings per share and revenue in the fourth quarter. For the quarter that ended Dec. 31, Tesla reported adjusted earnings per share of 71 cents, down from $1.19 per in the same quarter of 2022, on ...

HPE compromised by same Russian group behind SolarWinds and Microsoft hacks

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is the latest company to be targeted by a Russian-linked hacking group, with a small percentage of mailboxes belonging to people who work in the company’s cybersecurity and other departments compromised. The disclosure was made in a Jan. 19 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. HPE said the attacker was ...

Dutch startup Send AI raises $2.39M from Google and Keen Venture Partners

Dutch artificial intelligence startup Send AI Inc. has raised €2.2 million ($2.39 million) from Gradient Ventures LLC, Google LLC’s AI fund and Dutch firm Keen Venture Partners LP to accelerate the development of its AI models and expand into international markets. Founded in 2021 under the name of Autopilot, Send AI is developing technology that automatically ...

Protect AI rolls out Guardian for management of machine learning model security

Artificial intelligence and machine learning cybersecurity startup Protect AI Inc. today announced the launch of Guardian, a new secure gateway that enables organizations to enforce security policies on machine learning models to prevent malicious code from entering their environment. The service is based on ModelScan, an open-source tool from Protect AI that scans machine learning models to ...