Romanian Startup The Connecter secures pre-seed round led by Hatcher+ & Startupbootcamp Australia

Bucharest-based startup The Connecter hits $1.2M post-money valuation after its recent backing by two prominent venture capital firms: Startupbootcamp and Hatcher+. Startupbootcamp, Europe’s leading accelerator with a $5.6 billion portfolio valuation, selected The Connecter as one of the top 10 out of 1.8k applicants for their sustainable fintech program. This recognition speaks volumes about The … Read more

How Etherspot Redefines The Way We Build Ethereum Smart Contracts (Account Abstraction)

As Vitalik Buterin stated in one of his articles, “Account abstraction has for a long time been a dream of the Ethereum developer community.” And there are good reasons for that. Account abstraction (AA) enables EVM code to implement not only application logic but also verification logic in users’ wallets, thus fostering creative freedom in … Read more

Substack rival Ghost confirms it will join the fediverse in 2024

Ghost, an open-source rival to Substack’s newsletter platform, has confirmed it will this year officially join the fediverse — or the open social network of interconnected servers that includes apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Flipboard and, more recently, Instagram Threads, among others. Last week, the company teased its plans by surveying its users about how they may want … Read more

Amazon ends California drone deliveries

Amazon confirmed it is ending Prime Air drone delivery operations in Lockeford, California. The Central California town of 3,500 was the company’s second U.S. drone delivery site, after College Station, Texas. Operations were announced in June 2022. The retail giant is not offering details around the setback, only noting, “We’ll offer all current employees opportunities … Read more

Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets

Mark Zuckerberg onstage at Meta Connect 2023. | Getty Images Meta has started licensing the operating system for its Quest headset to other hardware makers, starting with Lenovo and Asus. It’s also making a limited-run, gaming-focused Quest with Xbox. On the theme of opening up, Meta is also pushing for more ways to discover alternative … Read more

‘Send now, pay later’ startup Pomelo lands $35M Series A from secretive Vy Capital, Founders Fund

Pomelo, a startup that combines international money transfer with credit, has raised $35 million in a Series A round led by Dubai venture firm Vy Capital, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. Additionally, the company is announcing a $75 million expansion of its warehouse facility. Founders Fund and A* Capital also participated in the financing, along with … Read more

Integrate HyperPod clusters with Active Directory for seamless multi-user login

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod is purpose-built to accelerate foundation model (FM) training, removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting involved in managing and optimizing a large training compute cluster. With SageMaker HyperPod, you can train FMs for weeks and months without disruption. Typically, HyperPod clusters are used by multiple users: machine learning (ML) researchers, software engineers, data scientists, … Read more

The executive’s guide to generative AI for sustainability

Organizations are facing ever-increasing requirements for sustainability goals alongside environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices. A Gartner, Inc. survey revealed that 87 percent of business leaders expect to increase their organization’s investment in sustainability over the next years. This post serves as a starting point for any executive seeking to navigate the intersection of generative … Read more