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  <updated>2026-07-22T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
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    <id>https://geotessera.org/news/2026-07-22-vultr-amd-partnership</id>
    <title>Powering Tessera, the AI that sees Earth in 128 dimensions</title>
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    <updated>2026-07-22T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Constantino Panagopulos</name></author>
    <summary>A substantial portion of TESSERA's global embeddings was produced on Vultr cloud infrastructure powered by AMD Instinct MI325X GPUs, part of a new partnership announced this week at AMD's Advancing AI Day summit.</summary>
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    <id>https://geotessera.org/news/2026-07-02-smallholder-farms</id>
    <title>TESSERA heads to Toronto to map the farms satellites can't see</title>
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    <updated>2026-07-02T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Constantino Panagopulos</name></author>
    <summary>New University of Cambridge research shows the TESSERA AI model can classify crops in the world's smallest fields more accurately than current methods, using a fraction of the computing power.</summary>
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    <id>https://geotessera.org/news/2026-06-04-cvpr-earth-intelligence</id>
    <title>TESSERA arrives in Denver for its CVPR Debut</title>
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    <updated>2026-06-04T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Constantino Panagopulos</name></author>
    <summary>A new AI model developed at the University of Cambridge distils millions of satellite images into a format that is easily used by researchers to reveal crop patterns, habitat loss, deforestation, and more.</summary>
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    <title>BBC Breakfast Show: Saving the Hedgehogs from Space</title>
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    <updated>2026-05-28T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
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    <id>https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-computer-scientist-and-tessera-co-lead-elected-fellow-royal-society</id>
    <title>Cambridge Computer Scientist and TESSERA Co-lead Elected Fellow of the Royal Society</title>
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    <updated>2026-05-27T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology</name></author>
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    <id>https://anil.recoil.org/notes/hedgehog-tessera-week</id>
    <title>News roundup: What happens when a hedgehog story prickles its way into the BBC</title>
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    <updated>2026-05-22T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Anil Madhavapeddy</name></author>
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    <title>ITV News Anglia: Satellites and AI used to track UK hedgehogs</title>
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    <updated>2026-05-20T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>ITV News Anglia East</name></author>
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    <title>BBC Radio Wales Drive: Satellites and AI used to track UK hedgehogs (segment starts 28:00)</title>
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    <updated>2026-05-20T22:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>BBC Radio Wales</name></author>
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    <id>https://geotessera.org/news/2026-05-19-tessera-hedgehogs_1</id>
    <title>Cambridge's TESSERA Helping to Protect UK Hedgehogs from Space</title>
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    <updated>2026-05-19T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Constantino Panagopulos</name></author>
    <summary>Researchers at the University of Cambridge have teamed up with the Cambridge Conservation Initiative to use TESSERA's satellite AI to map hedgehog habitats across the UK.</summary>
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    <title>BBC Today Programme: Satellites and AI used to track UK hedgehogs (segment starts 2:10:00)</title>
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    <updated>2026-05-19T22:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>BBC Radio 4</name></author>
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    <title>Satellites and AI used to track UK hedgehogs in bid to slow decline</title>
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    <updated>2026-05-19T21:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>BBC News</name></author>
    <summary>BBC coverage of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative collaboration using TESSERA to map bramble habitats as a proxy for hedgehog population monitoring across the UK.</summary>
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    <title>Can AI detect hedgehogs from space? Maybe if you find brambles first</title>
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    <updated>2025-09-26T23:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <author><name>Benj Edwards</name></author>
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