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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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 ...

SUPERWISE launches ‘/collect’ AI tool for frontline data capture

Enterprise artificial intelligence governance and operations platform company SUPERWISE today announced the launch of /collect, an AI-powered data capture tool built for frontline teams. The new tool is designed for dynamic environments such as construction sites, factories and utility routes and allows teams to capture, sync and report data anywhere. With /collect, data stays with the ...

Cosmo by CodeSignal brings bite-sized AI and business training to mobile

Skills assessment and experiential learning platform company CodeSignal Inc. today announced the launch of Cosmo, a mobile learning app that aims to turn spare minutes into career-ready skills. At launch, Cosmo includes more than 60 learning paths and more than 300 swipe-through micro-courses across artificial intelligence, marketing, coding, finance and leadership, among others. The new service launches ...

Seemplicity raises $50M to expand AI driven exposure management platform

Security risk reduction and productivity platform provider Seemplicity Security Ltd. revealed today that it has raised $50 million in new funding to advanceits AI-based exposure management platform and scale its go-to-market operations. Founded in 2020 by cybersecurity veterans Yoran Sirkis, Ravid Circus and Rotem Cohen Gadol (pictured), Seemplicity has as its goal to transform how enterprises approach ...