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#123: Nepal's Glacier Blind Spot, Portugal's Four-System AI Stack, Africa's Zero-Equity Bet
Impact Signals #123: Nepal's Glacier Blind Spot, Portugal's Four-System AI Stack, Africa's Zero-Equity Bet A France 24 investigation into Nepal's deadly glacier-rock collapse, which killed more than 1,000 people, traces the failure to a specific gap: no system was scanning for glacier-rock deformation the way rainfall and lake levels are routinely monitored. Portugal's civil protection authority, ANEPC, is running AI across four parts of the same emergency chain at once — noise-cancelling triage on Lisbon's 112 line, wildfire-camera imagery, a Portuguese-language disaster chatbot, and…
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