Welcome back to Mobility TechCrunchits center for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a role. To get this delivered to your inbox, sign up here for free – just click TechCrunch Mobility! Last week I wrote about Uber and Waymo and how their partnership appears to be deteriorating.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino managed to watch more than 40 World Cup matches in 39 days thanks to the elite’s favorite time-saving tool: a private jet. Ahead of Sunday’s final, which will be Infantino’s 44th match of the tournament, Business Insider’s analysis found that over the course of the World Cup, he traveled some 70,000
Christopher Nolan, the Oscar-winning director whose remake of “The Odyssey” is currently conquering the box office, said it has been “quite encouraging” to see deep skepticism toward AI, especially among young people. Nolan was responding to a question from interviewer Hugo Travers, who posts on YouTube under the name HugoDécrypte. Travers mentioned the legendary Trojan
A Walmart Supercenter is a fluorescent palace of American consumption. For American shoppers, it’s a utilitarian one-stop shop where groceries, TVs, tires and just about everything else are under one huge roof. However, for some international World Cup fans, it is a viral tourist sensation. Many fans decided to visit Walmart during their stay in
A farmer in rural India takes a photograph of a dying plant. He wants to research it on the Internet but he doesn’t speak English. She shouldn’t have to do it. That’s the kind of problem a nonprofit called Current AI is trying to solve by building an open, public AI infrastructure. In February at
This essay as told is based on a conversation with Lena Koropey, 48, whose mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Koropey’s mother currently lives with her, but Koropey plans to build an ADU in her backyard and move into it. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. My mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s
