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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Diligent launches ACL AI Studio to streamline governance and risk data analysis

Governance company Diligent Corp. today announced the launch of ACL AI Studio, a transformative tool that modernizes and streamlines governance, risk and compliance analytics. Unveiled at the IIA International Conference, ACL AI Studio combines artificial intelligence with the trusted, transparent and controlled capabilities of an established Audit Command Language product, simplifying data analysis with a user-friendly, ...

Coralogix launches MCP Server to give AI agents direct access to observability data

Observability platform company Coralogix Ltd. today unveiled Coralogix MCP Server, a Model Context Protocol offering that allows third-party artificial intelligence agents to connect directly to Coralogix’s observability data. That includes logs, metrics, traces, security information and event management, and real user monitoring, across production, staging and other environments. The new MCP Server has been designed to allow Coralogix’s ...

OutSystems debuts Agent Workbench to help enterprises build and scale AI agents

Low-code development platform company OutSystems Software em Rede S.A. today announced an early-access program for its Agent Workbench, a new offering that allows enterprises to create and orchestrate intelligent agents. Agent Workbench is designed to make it easier for leaders to innovate at speed and orchestrate human and AI collaboration and can be used across any ...

ProductNow raises $6M to build AI operating system for product teams

Artificial intelligence operating system for product teams startup ProductNow announced today that it has raised $6 million in new funding to launch its software stack for product teams. Founded earlier this year, ProductNow is building an operating system specifically for product, program and strategy teams. The OS is aimed at replacing the traditional, fragmented mix ...

LG AI Research partners with FriendliAI to launch AI model EXAONE 4.0 for public use

LG AI Research and generative artificial intelligence infrastructure company FriendliAI Inc. today announced a strategic partnership to make LG’s new AI model EXAONE 4.0 publicly available for the first time through FriendliAI’s serverless inference infrastructure. EXAONE 4.0 is LG AI Research’s latest breakthrough in large language models, delivering advanced reasoning and natural language generation suited ...

Google expands AI-driven cybersecurity efforts with updates ahead of Black Hat and DEF CON

Google LLC is gearing up its push into artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity with a series of major announcements this week ahead of the Black Hat USA and DEF CON 33 conferences in early August. The search giant is spotlighting the growing role of agentic AI in detecting and preventing threats, including updates on its Big Sleep ...

Harmonic raises $100M at nearly $900M valuation to scale AI model for formal mathematical reasoning

Artificial intelligence for formal mathematical reasoning startup Harmonic AI Inc. announced today that it has raised $100 million in new funding on a nearly $900 million valuation to accelerate the commercialization of its flagship model. Founded in 2023 and co-founded by Vlad Tenev, chief executive of Robinhood Markets Inc., Harmonic is building Aristotle, a next‑generation ...

Amplitude acquires Kraftful to enhance ‘Voice of Customer’ insights

Behavior-tracking software firm Amplitude Inc. revealed today that it has acquired Kraftful Inc., a “Voice of Customer” startup, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2019, Kraftful offers a product research and insights platform that uses artificial intelligence to help product teams deeply understand and act on user feedback at scale. The company offers a centralized system that ...

Foundation EGI raises $23M funding round to expand industrial AI platform

“Engineering general intelligence” platform startup Foundation EGI revealed today that it has raised $23 million in new funding to accelerate its vision of turning manufacturing’s biggest bottlenecks into breakthroughs using domain-specific artificial intelligence. Foundation EGI became a standalone company in 2023 when it was spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with what it ...

MetTel partners with Check Point to launch enterprise mobile threat defense

Communications solutions provider MetTel Inc. today announced a new strategic partnership with Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. to deliver an advanced mobile threat defense solution for enterprise customers. The partnership sees the introduction of MetTel Mobile Threat Defense solution, a fully managed solution powered by Check Point Harmony Mobile that provides protection against mobile cyberthreats ...