When a hurricane forms or a river swells, the urgent question isn't just where the crisis will strike, but who will be hit the hardest. Google's latest update to Earth AI aims to answer both questions at once.

The company said Thursday that it's expanding its geospatial technology, pairing its Gemini AI model with the vast store of weather, population and satellite data it has built over decades of mapping the planet. The result is a system that can connect the dots between physical events and human impact -- predicting not just the storm, but the communities most vulnerable to it.

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