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Perplexity is launching a $200-per-month subscription plan for its power users, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday. The plan, Perplexity Max, offers unlimited access to the startup’s spreadsheet and report generation tool, Labs, as well as early access to new features, including Perplexity’s forthcoming AI-powered browser, Comet. Max subscribers will also get priority access to any Perplexity services using the latest frontier models, such as OpenAI o3-pro and Claude Opus 4. With the launch of Max, Perplexity became the latest AI provider to offer a hyper-premium subscription tier to capitalize on its power users. OpenAI was the first…

LONDON (AP) — If you’re using ChatGPT but getting mediocre results, don’t blame the chatbot. Instead, try sharpening up your prompts.Generative AI chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude have become hugely popular and embedded into daily life for many users. They’re powerful tools that can help us with so many different tasks.What you shouldn’t overlook, however, is that a chatbot’s output depends on what you tell it to do, and how. There’s a lot you can do to improve the prompt — also known as the request or query — that you type in. Here are…

Windstar Cruises introduced the “Travel is Better When You’re All In” promotion, which offers complimentary, all-inclusive upgrades on select sailings through March 31, 2026.The fleetwide promotion applies to bookings made through Sept. 30, 2025, and includes drinks, gratuities and Wi-Fi, which Windstar said equates to a savings of $99 per guest.   “With this new offer, advisors and their clients can focus on designing their dream Windstar journey, instead of narrowing in on smaller, itemized costs,” says Windstar Cruises Vice President of Sales Dianna Rom. “It’s about leaving the mental math at home and simply enjoying the moment – sipping,…

Max Financial Services on Wednesday said its insurance subsidiary Axis Max Life Insurance received communication from an anonymous sender about unauthorized access to its customer data. Without disclosing specifics, the Noida-based financial services company said in its stock exchange filing that Axis Max Life Insurance subsequently initiated an information security assessment and data log analysis. “A detailed investigation is also underway in consultation with information security experts to assess the root cause of the incident and take remedial action, as necessary,” the company said. Axis Max Life Insurance is the fifth-largest insurer in India, with a sum assured of ₹21.9…

CNN  —  More than 80 Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Thursday, according to health officials, as Israel intensified its strikes across the strip. The deaths, which authorities said included dozens of people seeking aid, come as negotiations to reach a ceasefire in the enclave ramp up. A source told CNN that Hamas officials were set to meet Thursday to prepare a response to the latest proposal, which has been accepted by Israel. At a school-turned-displacement facility in Gaza City, 15 people were killed and 25 injured in Israeli strikes that left many with severe burns, the director of Al-Shifa…

The reunion to end all reunions is set to take place this Friday. That’s when the Britpop band Oasis gets together for a five-month world tour kicking off in Cardiff, Wales, officially marking the end of the yearslong feud between bandmates and brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher. The best way to celebrate this almost too-good-to-be-true run of shows is to dive into the band’s rich catalog. Even if you know the hits and have committed their unimpeachable run of mid-’90s albums to memory — looking at you, 1994’s “Definitely Maybe,” 1995’s “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” and 1997’s “Be Here…

Cans of Molson Coors Brewing Co. Miller Lite and Coors Light brand beerDaniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAmericans may spend more on common barbeque items this Fourth of July with prices on products like beer, outdoor folding chairs and grill tools higher, according to a new congressional report.The total cost of a typical grocery trip for a cookout has increased by a 12.7% annualized rate since President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff announcement in April, according to the analysis by the Joint Economic Committee’s Democratic minority arm. It calculated the price increase using consumer price index data for the most…

by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 12:50 PM ET, Wed July 2, 2025 Brand USA, the official destination marketing organization for the United States, faces an uncertain future should President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” be passed into law as it cuts funding from $100 million to just $20 million for the 2026 fiscal year. According to our sister publication, Travel Weekly, Brand USA is funded partially by up to $100 million in federal funding, but not through taxpayer dollars: it earns $17 from every Electronic System Travel Authorization (ESTA) fee paid by an international traveler to visit the United States.  The “Big…

Even Tesla’s energy storage business, which has been a small, yet notable bright spot, can’t escape the cloud that’s hanging over the company. For the second consecutive quarter, deployments of its Powerwall and Megapack stationary storage products have declined, according to stats released by Tesla. In the second quarter of this year, the company installed 9.6 gigawatt-hours of storage, down 0.8 gigawatt-hours from the first quarter. Tesla’s energy storage division peaked in the fourth quarter of 2024, a three-month period that saw 11 gigawatt-hours deployed. In all, Tesla deployed 31.4 GWh of energy storage products in 2024. Until this year,…

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Sophia Bunney launched the first time she tried ranch bronc riding, landing “quite a ways away from the horse.”“I’m very stubborn and I don’t like being defeated,” said the 18-year-old from Cessford, Alberta.In other words, the teenager was hooked on a sport that pits women against bucking horses for eight seconds.“I always kind of wanted to hop on a bronc,” Bunney told the Canadian Press. “In Grade 3, we did ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ and I said I wanted to be a female bronc rider.”Unlike saddle bronco riding, a rodeo…