Jens takes us through Google's new geospatial reasoning agent, which combines Gemini with Google's Earth AI models, plans its own analysis and delivers a report with maps. Google's partners have used it to find settlements at risk of Ebola and villages exposed to cyclones in minutes rather than weeks or days. That leads to a bigger question: what is the difference between a calculator and an AI agent, and how do we come to trust one?
Anton explains OlmoEarth from Ai2: an embedding model that describes every 10 by 10 metres of land as 128 numbers, built from Sentinel and Landsat satellite data. Ai2 has published yearly embeddings and an explorer you can try in the browser. And could it one day show change in a forest that nobody has registered?
Rasmus looks at the Azores, where around 400 civil servants tried a 32-hour week for six months, and asks who did the work. We also talk about the clock change the EU still hasn't scrapped, and Dataforsyningen's move to a new platform, which has since been postponed to 26–30 November. Jens ends with a demo of public map information: text, images, tabs and charts shown alongside the public map.
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