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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Curvestone AI raises $4M to bring reliable agentic automation to regulated industries

Workflow automation platform startup Curvestone AI revealed today that it has raised $4 million in new funding to accelerate product development, expand go-to-market efforts and grow its library of workflows. The aim is to position the company as a trusted automation layer for agentic artificial intelligence in regulated industries. Founded in 2023, Curvestone AI builds workflow ...

Google launches Workspace Studio to let users build AI agents for everyday work

Google LLC today announced the general availability of Google Workspace Studio, a new platform designed to let everyday users build and deploy artificial intelligence agents to automate routine work across Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive, Meet and Chat. The new offering brings agentic AI capabilities directly into Google Workspace and, in doing so, allows employees to ...

Box launches Shield Pro with agentic AI for automated content security

Cloud-based software company Box Inc. today launched Box Shield Pro, a new artificial intelligence-powered add-on that expands its existing content security platform with agentic AI designed to automate content classification, detect ransomware faster and streamline security operations. Box Shield Pro has been built to address the surge in unstructured data driven by AI and automation. ...

SandboxAQ launches new service to tackle shadow AI security risks

Cybersecurity and quantum technology solutions company SandboxAQ today announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence security posture management platform designed to combat the rapid rise of shadow AI across enterprises. The new AQtive Guard AI-SPM offering gives full visibility into where AI is being used in an organization’s tech stack and evaluates AI assets for exploitable ...

Hack The Box debuts HTB AI Range to test AI and human cyber defense side by side

Cybersecurity training company Hack The Box Ltd. today unveiled HTB AI Range, a controlled artificial intelligence cyber range built to test and benchmark the safety, limits and capabilities of autonomous AI security agents. Claimed to be a world’s first, HTB AI Range replicates live, high-stakes cyber battlegrounds, tailored for enterprise readiness, where AI agents and human operators ...

ServiceNow to acquire Veza in move to expand identity security portfolio

Cloud software maker ServiceNow Inc. announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire data security platform company Veza Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Although the price ServiceNow paid was not disclosed, a report in late November that said acquisition talks were advanced suggested that the acquisition price could be more than $1 billion. ...

Anthropic makes first acquisition with purchase of Bun to accelerate Claude Code

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic PBC today announced it had made its first acquisition in acquiring developer tools startup Bun for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2019, Bun offers an all-in-one JavaScript/TypeScript toolkit that aims to simplify and accelerate full-stack development. The company’s offering is similar in purpose to Node.js but also includes tools developers usually ...

Cyber providers CrowdStrike and Okta post solid quarters but fail to impress investors

Shares in both CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. an Okta Inc. fell more than 3% in late trading today despite both companies reporting earnings and revenue beats in their most recent quarter and providing outlooks ahead of expectations. CrowdStrike, for its fiscal 2026 third quarter that ended on Oct. 31, reported adjusted earnings per share of 96 ...

AWS rolls out Security Agent and strengthens GuardDuty and Security Hub at re:Invent 2025

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a set of major security enhancements across application protection, cloud security operations and threat detection that are designed to accelerate threat detection, automate security operations and strengthen protection across the full software development lifecycle. The announcements, made at the annual AWS re:Invent 2025 conference in Las Vegas, included a ...

AWS brings sovereign AI on-prem with new AI Factories alongside Trainium3 and Nvidia GB300 launches

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a set of artificial intelligence infrastructure announcements spanning sovereign on-premises deployments, next-generation custom AI accelerators and the most advanced Nvidia Corp. GPU instances yet offered on AWS — all part of a push to dominate both cloud and private AI at large scale. The announcements included the launch of ...