Prog.ai wants to help recruiters find technical talent by inferring skills from GitHub code

Companies already have a wealth of tools at their disposal for headhunting technical talent, but a new startup wants to give recruiters a leg-up by bringing together the worlds of GitHub and LinkedIn to create a database of the most suitable candidates for a specific software development role ̵

Adobe's Scott Belsky talks generative AI — and why it's not going to end up like web3

Scott Belsky, chief product officer and executive vice president for Adobe's Creative Cloud, believes there's a big difference between the hype cycle around web3 last year and what we're seeing this year with ChatGPT and other generative AI models. Belsky, who was interviewed by Forbes

SpotDraft shows that contract lifecycle management remains profitable, raises $26M

VCs see a rich opportunity in tools to manage the contract lifecycle. Two years ago, startups developing software that helps draft, manage and review contracts raised over $70 million in venture equity. While a relatively small space compared to, say, the market for customer relationship management

Attio raises $23.5M to build a next-gen CRM platform

While an associate at a VC firm, Nicolas Sharp took on the project of finding customer relationship management (CRM) software for the firm. The process, he says, was “a nightmare,” leading him to build a CRM platform that could meet his — and his company’s — needs. 

Salesforce strikes back

It would be an understatement to say that Salesforce has been having a rough ride of late — from activist pressure to executive departures and layoffs — it seems like everyone was piling onto a company that was already struggling as profits declined. It needed a strong quarter, and all indicati

OpenAI debuts Whisper API for speech-to-text transcription and translation

To coincide with the rollout of the ChatGPT API, OpenAI today launched the Whisper API, a hosted version of the open source Whisper speech-to-text model that the company released in September. Priced at $0.006 per minute, Whisper is an automatic speech recognition system that OpenAI claims enables

OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers

To call ChatGPT, the free text-generating AI developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, a hit is a massive understatement. As of December, ChatGPT had an estimated more than 100 million monthly active users. It’s attracted major media attention and spawned countless memes on social medi

Addressing criticism, OpenAI will no longer use customer data to train its models by default

As the ChatGPT and Whisper APIs launch this morning, OpenAI is changing the terms of its API developer policy, aiming to address developer — and user — criticism. Starting today, OpenAI says that it won’t use any data submitted through its API for “service improvements,̶

Thoughtworks lays off around 500 employees amid ongoing slowdown

Thoughtworks has emerged as the latest tech company to join the ongoing trend of laying off employees amid the global economic slowdown. The software consultancy firm laid off about 4% of its global workforce — approximately 500 employees — a figure that the company did not dispute when reached

Elliott has nominated its own slate of candidates for Salesforce board

Elliott Management, one of five activist investors working inside of Salesforce, has nominated a slate of candidates to the Salesforce board of directors. This move, which was confirmed by sources to technewss, is an indication that negotiations to resolve this without getting to this point have b

Headless CMS startup Strapi launches Strapi Cloud

Strapi is releasing its cloud-hosted version of its popular content management system. With Strapi Cloud, developers don't have to manage their own servers, as the company handles hosting for you. This way, you can focus on the front-end code. If you're not familiar with Strapi, the company

Ben Nye's new VC firm won't just give you a fish, but will guide you to the best lake

For the past 19 years, Ben Nye sought out promising infrastructure software as co-managing partner of Bain Capital Ventures. Now he and a group of four partners, collected from his time at Bain and as CEO of Turbonomic, are doing the same thing but out on their own with Venture Guides. Nye said the

Insurtech giant Equisoft lands $125M investment, eyes acquisitions

Montreal-based Equisoft, an insurance and investment software developer, today announced that it raised $125 million in venture equity. It’s a large amount made more significant by the fact that the investment climate for insurtech vendors is growing increasingly challenging.  A recent Galla

Qwak raises $12M for its MLOps platform

MLOps platform Qwak today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series A1 funding round from Bessemer Venture Partners. The startup, which offers a fully managed platform that combines machine learning engineering and data management tools, previously raised a total of $15 million. Existing in