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Plus: NASA reveals first images of US air quality and pollution 🌳 NASA's groundbreaking mission called TEMPO has started to bear its first fruits. The mission which stands for Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution, to monitor major air pollutants from space over North America was launched earlier this year on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It has started producing its first data maps. These data maps show the levels of ozone, nitrogen dioxide, formaldehyde, and aerosols in the atmosphere, which affect human health and climate. The mission aims to support the Biden-Harris administration’s climate agenda and their vision of clean air as a fundamental right for all citizens. Also, Generative AI is on the rise and is here to stay for the long term. Here's how The paper "[Generative AI: Its Risk to Your Enterprise’s Data and How to Tame Them]( discusses the possible threats AI poses to enterprise data and ways to mitigate those risks. Good morning. I’m Rizwan, Editor at IE. 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