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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Zero Networks launches AI Segmentation to govern autonomous AI agents

Zero-trust security startup Zero Networks Ltd. today announced the launch of AI Segmentation, a set of platform capabilities designed to give enterprises identity-based control over autonomous artificial intelligence agents and block AI-driven lateral movement across corporate networks. The new release targets three gaps enterprises face as AI agents proliferate inside their environments: unchecked agent access ...

Cowbell debuts Prime One cyber insurance with AI and quantum risk cover

Cybersecurity insurance provider Cowbell Cyber Inc. today announced the U.S. launch of Cowbell Prime One, a new non-admitted cyber insurance product that is designed for organizations with advanced digital risk profiles and annual revenue between $250 million and $1 billion. The new insurance product offers coverage of up to $10 million in limits and introduces affirmative coverage ...

Ivanti extends Neurons platform with autonomous IT and security capabilities

Information technology security software company Ivanti Inc. today announced new capabilities that are focused on allowing autonomous IT operations and organizations to secure their environments more efficiently at large scale. The new advancements allow IT and security operations to detect, decide and act autonomously without sacrificing trust, governance or control, something that Ivanti claims is necessary in ...

Mondoo debuts free AI Skills Check to flag risky agent skills before installation

Managed vulnerability management service startup Mondoo Inc. today announced the launch of Mondoo AI Skills Check, a free security checker designed to address the growing supply chain risk posed by AI agent skills. The new free service, available without subscription, allows users to search for AI agent skills by name, registry or package URL to ...

AppZen targets accounts payable bottleneck with new AI agent service center

Autonomous finance platform company AppZen Inc. today launched AP Inbox Service Center, a new accounts payable service that deploys eight prebuilt artificial intelligence agents to automate how finance teams handle vendor email. The new service adds agents to AppZen Inbox and converts the product into a structured service center where every inbound vendor message becomes ...

Tim Cook out, John Ternus in: Apple names hardware boss its next chief executive

Apple Inc. announced today that John Ternus, its senior vice president of hardware engineering, will become chief executive officer on Sept. 1, succeeding Tim Cook, who will transition to executive chairman after roughly 15 years running the iPhone maker. Apple said in a statement that the board approved the transition unanimously and described it as ...

DeepKeep rolls out Vibe AI Red Teaming to test AI apps and agents

Artificial intelligence security platform company DeepKeep Ltd. today announced the launch of Vibe AI Red Teaming, a capability designed for human-steered, dynamic testing and attack simulation on AI applications and AI agents. The new solution sees the introduction of a new approach that DeepKeep describes as “beyond automated red teaming,” since it allows security teams to guide ...

Team Cymru launches Total Insights Feed to replace legacy threat intelligence lists

Real-time threat intelligence company Team Cymru Inc. today announced the launch of Total Insights Feed, a unified threat intelligence platform that is designed to replace legacy indicator list-based feeds with machine-actionable, scored intelligence across the full surface of the internet. The new platform evaluates more than 57 million IP addresses and classless inter-domain routing blocks ...

Slash raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation to expand AI-powered banking platform for online businesses

Business banking startup Slash Financial Inc. today announced that it has raised $100 million in new funding on a $1.4 billion valuation to continue product development and build out its artificial intelligence-driven back office for small and midsized businesses. Founded in 2020, Slash operates a banking platform built for modern online businesses rather than a ...

Canva unveils Canva AI 2.0, recasting its platform as an agentic system for work

Visual communication platform provider Canva Pty Ltd. today unveiled Canva AI 2.0, an overhaul of its platform that offers a conversational, agentic system aimed at becoming the place where teams start and end their workday. The release, announced at the company’s Canva Create event in Los Angeles, is being pitched as Canva’s biggest shift since its 2013 ...