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#137: Google and Gates Foundation Put $100 Million Behind AI Tools for 200 Million Farmers, Microsoft's Open-Source AI Maps Venezuela's Earthquake Overnight, Colorado Springs AI Agent Handles Half of Non-Emergency Calls
Impact Signals #137: Google and Gates Foundation Put $100 Million Behind AI Tools for 200 Million Farmers, Microsoft's Open-Source AI Maps Venezuela's Earthquake Overnight, Colorado Springs AI Agent Handles Half of Non-Emergency Calls Google and the Gates Foundation are putting $100 million behind AI tools aimed at 200 million smallholder farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, scaling climate-risk forecasting and pest-management tools built for low-connectivity regions. Microsoft's open-source HASTE system gave Catholic Relief Services a building-by-building damage map of…
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