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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Silicon Valley AI leaders launch $100M Leading the Future super-PAC

Silicon Valley artificial intelligence leaders and investors have launched a new super-PAC network focused on AI and advocating against strict AI regulation, with $100 million put towards the effort. A super-PAC is a political action committee that can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to advocate for or against candidates. Unlike traditional PACs, it ...

Cloudflare rolls out new defenses for generative AI in the enterprise

Cloud connectivity provider Cloudflare Inc. today announced new capabilities for Cloudflare One, its zero-trust security platform, designed to help organizations securely adopt, build and deploy generative artificial intelligence applications. The new features are designed to give Cloudflare customers the ability to understand, analyze and set controls automatically on how generative AI is used throughout their organization while ...

Apple issues emergency update to fix unpatched flaw in ImageIO framework

Apple Inc. has released an emergency security update to address a “zero-day” vulnerability in its ImageIO framework that has been actively exploited in the wild. A zero-day is a previously unknown software vulnerability that is discovered by attackers before the developer has created a fix. The ImageIO framework is a core component of Apple’s operating ...

Anthropic reportedly in talks to raise $10B in new funding as AI boom continues apace

Anthropic PBC, the company behind the Claude generative artificial intelligence service, is reportedly nearing a deal to raise $10 billion in a new funding round, as the AI boom continues apace. According to Bloomberg referencing people familiar with the matter, the company had previously been in discussions to raise $5 billion on a $170 billion ...

Zoom stock gains on stronger-than-expected earnings and revenue

Shares of Zoom Communications Inc. rose more than 5% in late trading today after the online communications company impressed investors with earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2026 second quarter. For the quarter ended July 31, Zoom reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.53, up from $1.39 in the same quarter of the previous ...

Darktrace reports attackers are hijacking SaaS accounts through rented virtual private server nodes

A new report out today from Darktrace Ltd. details how attackers are exploiting virtual private servers to compromise software-as-a-service accounts, launch phishing campaigns and evade detection. The company’s Inside the SOC report details coordinated incidents across customer environments, underscoring how virtual infrastructure abuse is reshaping the threat landscape for cloud and enterprise users. According to Darktrace, VPS ...

Klaviyo launches enhanced MCP server to connect AI tools with customer data

Customer relationship management and marketing automation company Klaviyo Inc. today announced the general availability of its enhanced Model Context Protocol server that gives marketers the ability to connect artificial intelligence tools such as Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and other local or web-based tools directly with Klaviyo. The enhanced MCP server includes improved reporting ...

TinyFish raises $47M to expand deployment of enterprise web agents

Enterprise web agent infrastructure startup TinyFish Inc. revealed today that it has raised $47 million in new funding to expand product development and go-to‑market efforts. Founded in 2024, TinyFish is building what it calls enterprise web agents, artificial intelligence-powered autonomous workflows that can operate across the web at massive scale. The company’s agents are designed ...

F5 acquires MantisNet to expand cloud-native observability capabilities

Application security firm F5 Inc. today announced that it has acquired real-time network observability and intelligence company MantisNet for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2012, MantisNet offers cloud-native network observability software designed to simplify the process of accessing and extracting network intelligence in real time. The company delivers high-resolution insight into containerized and dynamic network environments, especially ...

AuthZed introduces AuthZed Cloud to simplify enterprise authorization

Permissions management startup AuthZed Inc. today announced the launch of AuthZed Cloud, a self-service platform that lets businesses run authorization infrastructure like the rest of their cloud infrastructure — provisioned, managed and scaled on-demand. AuthZed Cloud has been designed to remove the need to build and maintain custom authorization stacks, allowing engineering teams to focus on building ...