What I learned from the UN’s “AI for Good” summit

June 4, 2024

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Greetings from Switzerland! I’ve just come back from Geneva, which last week hosted the UN’s AI for Good Summit, organized by the International Telecommunication Union. The summit’s big focus was how AI can…

ChatGPT is down for several users, OpenAI is working on a fix

June 4, 2024

OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT has been down for several users across the globe for the last few hours.

Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools’ use of 365 Education suite

June 4, 2024

Microsoft’s education-focused flavor of its cloud productivity suite, Microsoft 365 Education, is facing investigation in the European Union where privacy rights non-profit noyb has just lodged two complaints with Austria’s data protection authority. The complaints target use of Microsoft’s cloud software by schools. The first one focuses on transparency and legal basis issues. noyb says […]

Samara is accelerating the energy transition in Spain one solar panel at a time

June 4, 2024

Since the shock of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, solar energy has been having a moment in Europe. Electricity prices have been going up while the investment required to get solar panels installed on your roof has been going down. This is due to new subsidies, better technology and several European startups that are working […]

Meta’s AI Chief Is in the Middle of a Public Clash With Elon Musk: ‘Secrecy Hampers Progress’

June 3, 2024

Meta AI chief Yann LeCun and Elon Musk have been going back and forth on X, formally Twitter, for a week.

Watch Apple kick off WWDC 2024 right here

June 3, 2024

The keynote will be focused on Apple’s software offerings and the developers that power them, including the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS and watchOS.

TechCrunch Space: China’s victory

June 3, 2024

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Unfortunately, Boeing’s Starliner launch was delayed yet again, this time due to issues with one of the three redundant computers used by United Launch Alliance, the rocket provider, to initiate the launch sequence. Those computers are supposed to work in sync, but one of them was moving a […]

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