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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Microsoft boosts AI platform security with new identity protection threat alerts and data governance

Microsoft Corp. today unveiled a major expansion of its artificial intelligence security and governance offerings with the introduction of new capabilities designed to secure the emerging “agentic workforce,” a world where AI agents and humans collaborate and work together. Announced at the company’s annual Build developer conference, Microsoft is expanding Entra, Defender and Purview, embedding ...

New Discovery AI from Microsoft targets faster science innovation and experimentation

Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of Microsoft Discovery, a new enterprise-grade artificial intelligence platform built to revolutionize the research and development process by embedding “agentic AI” at every stage of scientific discovery. Announced at the company’s annual Build 2025 conference this week, Microsoft Discovery is designed for scientists and engineers and uses a graph-based knowledge ...

Docker launches Hardened Images to secure enterprise software supply chains

Software containerization company Docker Inc. today announced the launch of Docker Hardened Images, a new service that curates a catalog of security-hardened, enterprise-grade container images that meet the toughest software supply chain challenges. Docker Hardened Images has been designed with security at its core, offering users images that are minimal, continuously maintained and tested to meet enterprise ...

BreachRx raises $15M to expand intelligent incident response platform

Incident response startup BreachRx Inc. today announced that it has raised $15 million in new funding to scale up its go-to-market and engineering teams. Founded in 2017, BreachRX is a cybersecurity company that offers an intelligent incident response platform designed to provide operational resilience across the entire enterprise. The company’s technology automates the creation of tailored incident ...

JFrog and Nvidia partner on secure software supply chain for Enterprise AI Factory

Software supply chain company JFrog Ltd. today announced a new strategic partnership with Nvidia Corp. to power what the company calls the next era of enterprise artificial intelligence. Under the partnership, JFrog’s platform will serve as the central software artifact repository and secure model registry within Nvidia’s recently unveiled Enterprise AI Factory. The initiative is designed to ...

Akido lands $60M to grow AI platform for underserved healthcare settings

Artificial intelligence and care delivery company Akido Labs Inc. announced today that it has raised $60 million in new funding to expand the reach of ScopeAI, a system aimed at increasing clinical capacity and improving healthcare access. Founded in 2015, Akido is a health technology company focused on using AI to expand access to high-quality ...

Proofpoint to acquire Hornetsecurity in move to expand Microsoft 365 threat protection

Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint Inc. today announced it plans to acquire Hornetsecurity GmbH, a Germany-based pan-European provider of artificial intelligence-powered Microsoft 365 security, data protection, compliance and security awareness services. The price of the acquisition was not officially disclosed, but CNBC reported that the deal was north of $1 billion. Founded in 2007, Hornetsecurity’s flagship offering, called 365 Total ...

AI biotech firm SpotitEarly raises $20.3M to scale noninvasive cancer detection in US

Israeli artificial intelligence biotech startup SpotitEarly Inc. today officially launched in the U.S. and announced that it has raised $20.3 million in new funding to scale up its U.S. presence and to strengthen its cancer detection technology. Founded in 2020, SpotitEarly is pioneering a noninvasive breath test for early cancer detection. The company uses AI ...

In a positive sign for IPOs, eToro shares rise 29% on Nasdaq debut

In a positive sign for initial public offerings, shares in eToro Group Ltd. closed their first day of trading up 29%, after the social trading and investment marketplace company’s shares debuted on the Nasdaq today. The IPO saw eToro offer 11,923,018 Class A common shares at $52 per share. The stock traded as high as ...

CoreWeave shares fall after missed earnings estimates in first report since Nasdaq debut

Shares in CoreWeave Inc. fell more than 5% in late trading today after the cloud artificial intelligence infrastructure provider fell very short of expectations on earnings but reported a beat on revenue in its fiscal first quarter, the company’s first report since it went public in March. For the quarter ended March 31, CoreWeave reported a ...