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  "id": 876076,
  "title": "How AI helps gather remote biodiversity data: Interview with Microsoft’s Juan Lavista Ferres",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/how-ai-helps-gather-remote-biodiversity-data-interview-with",
  "topic": "ai",
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  "published": "2026-08-14T13:06:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mongabay",
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    "url": "https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/how-ai-helps-gather-remote-biodiversity-data-interview-with-microsofts-juan-lavista-ferres/"
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  "summary": "At a meeting with conservationists a couple of years back, Juan Lavista Ferres had a eureka moment. As the director of Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab, Lavista Ferres has extensively worked on projects that use artificial intelligence technology to process and analyze biodiversity data. At that particular meeting, however, he realized that a glaring gap […]",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/microsoft-retreats-in-china-but-ai-boom-helps-it-keep-a-window-open",
        "published": "2026-08-13T11:46:13.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Times of India",
        "title": "How AI boom helped Microsoft keep a window open in China, it left 9 years ago",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/how-ai-boom-helped-microsoft-keep-a-window-open-in-china-it-left-9",
        "published": "2026-08-13T16:14:55.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Qatar Tribune Business",
        "title": "Microsoft retreats in China, but AI helps it keep a window open",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/microsoft-retreats-in-china-but-ai-helps-it-keep-a-window-open",
        "published": "2026-08-13T21:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Hindu - Sci-Tech",
        "title": "Microsoft retreats in China, but AI boom helps it keep a window open",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/microsoft-retreats-in-china-but-ai-boom-helps-it-keep-a-window-open",
        "published": "2026-08-14T05:38:39.000Z"
      }
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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."
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