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Thousands of deaths per year caused by invisible wildfire pollutant, satellite data shows

May 13, 2026
When you think of air pollution from wildfires, you probably picture the thick plumes of smoke and ash that waft into the atmosphere during a blaze. And if you’ve lived in an area that’s been enveloped by these emissions, you know to stay inside or wear a mask when the light tints red and gets hazy. But this thick cloud isn’t the only component of wildfire smoke that carries a…
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The AI legal services industry is heating up - Anthropic is getting in on the action

May 13, 2026
Anthropic announced Tuesday that it is launching a host of new chatbot features designed to provide automated assistance to law firms. The new features expand Claude for Legal – the law-focused plug-in that launched earlier this year – offering users a new set of legal plug-ins and MCP connectors designed for specific areas of law. The new tools come amid hot competition in the legal…
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Dessn raises $6M for its production-focused design tool

May 13, 2026
New types of design tools, such as Perplexity-owned Visual Electric, Figma-owned Weavy, Flora, and Krea, have risen in popularity in the last few years, thanks to AI. These tools bank on the promise that, with AI, a product team with designers can iterate through variations…
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Annie Leibovitz launched a new prize for emerging photographers, and it's already producing remarkable work

May 13, 2026
If you haven’t heard of the Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize yet, now’s the time to pay attention. Launched in 2025 by New York photographer and philanthropist Lisa Saltzman, through the Saltzman Family Foundation, and created in collaboration with Annie Leibovitz, it’s explicitly designed to spotlight emerging female photographers at a pivotal point in their careers. It…
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Zeem celebrates 350,000th successful charging session at LAX [video]

May 13, 2026
Electric logistics firm Zeem Solutions celebrated some good reliability news at ACT Expo last week, after its commercial charging depot at LAX hit a huge milestone, surpassing 350,000 successful charging sessions as one of the highest-throughput charging facilities in the US. “What the 350,000-session milestone really measures is reliability at scale,” says Rick Eckert, Vice President of…
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