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#68: Mercy Corps Ships VERA Agentic AI, Google's Flood Forecasts Reach 2 Billion, IIT Mandi's Himalayan Landslide Warnings
Impact Signals #68: Mercy Corps Ships VERA Agentic AI, Google's Flood Forecasts Reach 2 Billion, IIT Mandi's Himalayan Landslide Warnings Cloudera and Mercy Corps shipped VERA, an agentic AI analyst for humanitarian crises that has already cut Sudan food-security analysis from six days to three and saved roughly $2,000 per election-security report in Colombia. The same week, Google published production numbers on its crisis stack, with AI flood forecasting now reaching 2 billion people across 150+ countries, and IIT Mandi switched on a landslide early warning system covering the entire Indian…
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