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

Latest from Duncan Riley

Tesla shares fall more than 3% despite earnings beat and $1.5B in free cash flow

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY3 HOURS AGO

Shares of Tesla Inc. fell more than 3% in after-hours trading today after the electric car maker beat earnings expectations for its fiscal third quarter on revenue that came in a little under forecasts. Early after-hours gains, which followed a 3.4% rise …

Meta beats on revenue and splits its stock with nonvoting shares to raise capital

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY3 HOURS AGO

Meta Platforms Inc. shares rose about 2% in after-hours trading today after the social networking company beat third-quarter revenue expectations and unveiled nonvoting Class C shares that will act as a two-for-one stock split. For the quarter ended on Sept. 30, Meta …

Year-old AI research lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a reported $6B valuation

AI By DUNCAN RILEY4 HOURS AGO

Artificial intelligence research lab Flapping Airplanes Inc. today announced it has raised $1 billion in new funding, about a year after it was founded. Investors valued the startup at $6 billion in the deal, Bloomberg reported. No commercial product has come out …

Eka Robotics nets $150M at a $1.45B valuation for robot hands that sense force

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY1 DAY AGO

Robot dexterity startup Eka Robotics Inc. said today it has raised $150 million in new funding at a reported valuation of $1.45 billion. Eka offers an artificial intelligence model for robotic manipulation that works from force data as well as camera images. …

OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to bring AI agents into drug development

AI By DUNCAN RILEY1 DAY AGO

OpenAI Group PBC revealed today that it has acquired drug development software startup Orchestra Bio Inc. Orchestra builds artificial intelligence agents that help pharmaceutical teams keep development programs on track,. Its staff and technology will now sit inside OpenAI’s Rosalind life sciences …

DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its production services

AI By DUNCAN RILEY1 DAY AGO

Chinese artificial intelligence startup Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. today open-sourced DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its own production services. The release takes on the cost of serving large models to the public. DeepSeek calls reaching a massive …

Inception says Mercury 3 beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at up to 8x the speed

AI By DUNCAN RILEY1 DAY AGO

Diffusion language model startup Inception AI Inc. today released Mercury 3, its new flagship model. In the company’s own benchmarks, Mercury 3 beat OpenAI Group PBC’s GPT-6 Luna and Anthropic PBC’s Claude Haiku 5.5 on eight of 12 tests at four to …

Homebase launches AI assistant to take on scheduling and payroll for small business owners

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY2 DAYS AGO

Small business team management company Homebase today introduced Homebase Assistant, an artificial intelligence tool for owners who run hourly teams without a back office. Homebase bills it as the only AI built specifically for that market. Assistant targets the desk work that …

Thought Industries’ Lens checks product knowledge for conflicts before customers see it

AI By DUNCAN RILEY2 DAYS AGO

Customer learning software company Thought Industries Inc. today launched Lens, an artificial intelligence product that checks a business’ product knowledge for conflicts before it reaches customers. Thought Industries Academy, its existing course software, joins Lens in a new Customer Knowledge AI Platform. …

SmartBear’s BearQ adds Sources to find coverage gaps and Workflows to automate test runs

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY2 DAYS AGO

Software testing company SmartBear Software Inc. is pushing its BearQ agentic quality assurance system beyond test automation with two new capabilities released today. Both additions target the part of quality assurance that artificial intelligence has made more difficult by speeding up coding. …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Tesla shares fall more than 3% despite earnings beat and $1.5B in free cash flow

Meta beats on revenue and splits its stock with nonvoting shares to raise capital

Year-old AI research lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a reported $6B valuation

Eka Robotics nets $150M at a $1.45B valuation for robot hands that sense force

OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to bring AI agents into drug development

DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its production services

Inception says Mercury 3 beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at up to 8x the speed

Homebase launches AI assistant to take on scheduling and payroll for small business owners

Thought Industries’ Lens checks product knowledge for conflicts before customers see it

SmartBear’s BearQ adds Sources to find coverage gaps and Workflows to automate test runs

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