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Otonomo, a connected automotive company that went public in 2021 and has seen a sharp decline in the value of its stock, recently announced a reverse merger with roadside assistance tech company Urgent.ly. In an all-share merger, Urgently shareholders will receive 67% of the combined company, and Otonomo shareholders will …

Tech industry layoffs continue. The company GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, announced today that it will be letting go of 10% of its workforce through the end of its fiscal year. GitHub had about 3,000 employees prior to this announcement, which was first reported by Fortune. Additionally, the business …

With the help of feature gates and other experimentation tools, Statsig, a well-funded Bellevue, Washington-based startup that enables product teams to test and evaluate new features (using real-time data from actual customers), announced today that it is essentially making its feature gating capabilities available for free to most users. All …

The focus these days is all on ChatGPT, but contemporary AI technologies have a variety of applications that go beyond making Bing finally useful. Utilizing AI to help with the tiresome and frustrating process of filing and auditing corporate expense reports is one new trend. Microsoft and American Express today …

DoorDash, a delivery service, is launching new features for riders, including fewer notifications, a request that clients refrain from texting them while they are driving, and messaging that encourages one-tap replies. In order to reduce the number of notifications sent to delivery partners while they are in transit, DoorDash is …

GitLab, a leader in developer operations (DevOps), is the latest tech company to announce a round of layoffs. The company said today that it is reducing its headcount by 7%. The majority of the major tech companies, including Microsoft, Alphabet, and Salesforce, have announced staff reductions, making 2023 so far …

The new Bing, which is supported by a combination of a next-generation OpenAI GPT model and Microsoft’s own Prometheus model, was launched by Microsoft yesterday on the web and in its Edge browser. With this, Microsoft beat Google to the punch in popularizing this type of search experience, though the …

Former Bridgewater Associates investment logic engineer Jacob Beckerman found it difficult to print out and annotate documents using common document apps like Acrobat and Microsoft Office. He experimented with PDF processing software because he questioned why it wasn’t possible to read and write on a PC that felt as natural …

In his second State of the Union address of his term, President Joe Biden will speak to the nation on Tuesday evening. The president is scheduled to comment on data privacy and children’s online safety issues, according to a White House press release. According to the briefing, Biden will urge …

According to security researchers, a Russian hacking group, which was responsible for the destructive WhisperGate malware cyberattacks, has recently been seen targeting Ukrainian entities with a new information-stealing malware. This campaign has been linked to TA471 (also known as UAC-0056), a cyberthreat actor with ties to Russia that has been …