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The UN says it is working with Google on the UN System Data Commons, which lets users search for statistics from across UN agencies via natural-language queries (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

The United Nations on Thursday announced that it is working with Google to make its vast collection of global statistics easier for AI systems to access and use.

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