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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Google launches Unified Security platform and unveils Gemini agents for threat detection

Google LLC today announced a wave of artificial intelligence-driven capabilities coming to enterprise security, including a new service called Google Unified Security, new security agents and innovations. Leading the announcements from the Google Cloud Next conference this week in Las Vegas is the introduction of Google Unified Security, a new AI-powered platform that consolidates the ...

Portnox raises $37.5M to scale cloud-native zero-trust access control

Network security startup Portnox revealed today that it has raised $37.5 million in new funding to accelerate product innovation, expand market reach, and empower resource-constrained security teams with accessible, enterprise-grade zero-trust security. Portnox specializes in cloud-native zero-trust access control solutions designed to help organizations secure their networks, applications and infrastructure. The company’s platform eliminates the ...

Hawk secures $56 million to expand financial crime detection platform

Artificial intelligence-powered anti-money laundering and fraud prevention solutions company Hawk AI GmbH announced today that it has raised $56 million in new funding to support continued product innovation and global expansion, particularly into the U.S. market. Founded in 2018 by fintech veterans Tobias Schweiger and Wolfgang Berner, Hawk has as its mission to assist financial ...

Vectara launches open-source framework to evaluate enterprise RAG systems

Artificial intelligence agent and assistant platform provider Vectara Inc. today announced the launch of Open RAG Eval, an open-source evaluation framework for retrieval-augmented generation. RAG is a technique that enhances AI responses by retrieving relevant external data to inform its output. The approach improves accuracy and reduces hallucinations by grounding responses in real-time, trusted information. ...

Fortanix introduces Armet AI for compliant, secure enterprise generative AI deployment

Multicloud security firm Fortanix Inc. today announced the public preview of Fortanix Armet AI, a new service that allows enterprises to create secure and compliant custom generative artificial intelligence applications to mitigate data exposure risk. Armet AI has been designed to assist organizations that are seeking to take advantage of generative AI technology but don’t view off-the-shelf ...

Corsha raises $18 million to expand machine identity security platform

Machine-to-machine communications startup Corsha Inc. announced today that it has raised $18 million in new funding to expand go-to-market efforts, launch Corsha Labs and enhance its machine identity platform with artificial intelligence-driven behavioral and adaptive access controls for securing machine-to-machine communication. Founded in 2017, Corsha offers solutions designed to integrate seamlessly into various environments, including ...

SignalFire secures $1B to expand early-stage AI-focused investments

San Francisco-based venture capital firm SignalFire Ventures today announced that it has raised more than $1 billion in new capital to bring its total assets under management to $3 billion. Founded in 2013 by Chris Farmer and Ilya Kirnos, SignalFire is best known as an early investor in artificial intelligence startups but also as a ...

Stytch and Cloudflare partner to secure Remote MCP servers with OAuth

Identity platform startup Stytch Inc. today unveiled Remote MCP Authorization, a new service created in partnership with Cloudflare Inc. that allows developers to add authorization to Remote MCP Servers built on Cloudflare Workers and any other frameworks supporting MCP Servers. Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is a communications standard developed by Anthropic PBC that allows artificial intelligence ...

Xanthorox AI emerges as a new malicious threat in cybercrime communities

A new report released today by phishing protection company SlashNext Inc. details the emergence of a next-generation malicious artificial intelligence platform called Xanthorox AI, which is being promoted in underground cybercrime forums as a modular, self-hosted tool for automated hacking operations. Malicious AIs are not new, with several tools already in circulation, with models such as WormGPT, FraudGPT ...

Google DeepMind outlines safety framework for future AGI development

A new paper from Google DeepMind Technologies Ltd., the artificial intelligence research laboratory that is part of Alphabet Inc., this week laid out a comprehensive framework for navigating the risks and responsibilities of developing artificial general intelligence, marking one of the clearest commitments yet from the company on AGI safety. AGIs are theoretical AI systems that ...