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  "id": 1681713,
  "title": "Operation Blue Skies: Reducing aviation climate impact with AI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/operation-blue-skies-reducing-aviation-climate-impact-with-ai",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-18T09:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Google Blog",
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    "url": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/blue-skies/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Google is partnering with the UK on Operation Blue Skies, an airspace-scale, AI-powered contrail avoidance trial.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft to reduce contrail-induced warming using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts (Madeleine Cuff/New Scientist)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/google-unveils-operation-blue-skies-a-5m-trial-to-re-route-north",
        "published": "2026-08-18T10:00:36.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}