Today’s top headlines

• 🤖‘We also need to talk about artificial intelligence's positive potential,’ says AI for Good founder. Since 2017, the UN’s AI for Good conference has brought together researchers, NGOs and tech leaders to discuss the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence. Frédéric Werner, the summit’s founder, defends taking a balanced approach.
  Geneva Solutions via Le Temps (EN)
• 🗳️Despite frictions, Global Fund asserts confidentiality rules and schedule. The organisation fighting Aids, tuberculosis and malaria confirmed that the election of a new executive director will proceed, with a first round of candidate interviews set to take place between 12 and 23 July in London.
  Health Policy Watch (EN)
• 💰The new investment map: AI, chips and minerals reshape capital flows. Global foreign direct investment recovered last year after two consecutive years of decline. But the uptick was concentrated in a small number of countries and strategic sectors tied to AI, semiconductors and critical minerals, a new report by Unctad finds.
  Arete News (EN)
• ⛈️El Niño is expected ‘to break records’: top expert. Forecasting models are pointing to an “extreme event”, with the weather phenomenon bringing floods and droughts to different parts of the world, surpassing anything previously recorded over the last three decades, Tim Stockdale, an expert from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, said.
  Agence France Presse via Arab News (EN)
• 🗣Opinion: The UN is looking at AI from the wrong side. Gabriel Accascina, a former UN Development Programme director, argues that the multilateral body’s engagement with AI largely sits with the demand side of the technology when it should focus more on the supply side, where the consequences of AI are produced.
  PassBlue (EN)
• 🇺🇳Who will be the new UN secretary general? Sidelined in resolving some of today’s biggest conflicts and ignored by nations in many of its multilateral efforts, some may argue whether the post is even worth fighting for anymore. Argentine diplomat Susana Malcorra, a former frontrunner for the role, argues it is, and that a female candidate would “bring a light to the UN that will revitalise the UN.”
  Swissinfo (EN)