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• Nations across the world are taking steps to mitigate the impact of oil price spikes.
• These include flexible working arrangements and reducing non-essential journeys.
• Countries heavily reliant on Middle Eastern oil are particularly vulnerable to the war's impact.

Governments around the world are urging people to cut back on energy use amid surging oil

OpenAI has closed a yawning gap in its ChatGPT subscription pricing with a new $100 per month Pro plan that slots between the $20 per month Plus plan and $200 per month Pro plan. Offering five times more Codex than the $20 option, it appears designed to challenge Anthropic's $100 per month Claude option. "Compared with Claude Code, Codex delivers more coding capacity per dollar across paid tiers,"

• Bobbi Brown, 68, says being pushed out of her namesake brand ultimately worked in her favor.
• "First of all, if I didn't get fired, I'd still be there, miserable," Brown said.
• After her 25-year noncompete ended, Brown launched Jones Road Beauty in 2020

Bobbi Brown, 68, says being fired

• Russia is looking to go big in the anti-drone ammo game, with a new 5.45mm rifle round.
• Kalashnikov Concern said it plans to mass-produce bullets that split into fragments to kill drones.
• Ukraine is already developing similar bullets, as such designs creep into the

• Sophie Steiner moved to Shanghai in 2015, eager to try Chinese food beyond the General Tso's chicken she grew up on.
• In addition to sampling the city's modern dishes, she discovered Shanghai's traditional home-style cuisine.
• Three dishes she sees tourists often overlook when visiting Shanghai include kaofu, youbaoxia

• A couple built a US gas price tracker using Claude Code and AI agents that called 20,000 stations.
• It stacks gas prices with regional delicacies — like Dunkin' coffees and college football tickets.
• The calls show how people

Apple is closing three of its retail stores this summer, including its first location to unionize. The tech company said it plans to permanently close Apple Store in Trumbull, CT, Escondito, CA, and Towson, MD. The Apple Store location in Towson, was the first where unionized workers and Apple reached a contract agreement back in 2024. 

MacRumors published a statement from Apple confirming the

OpenAI has announced a new version of its ChatGPT Pro subscription that costs $100 per month. The new Pro tier offers "5x more" usage of its Codex coding tool than the $20 per month Plus subscription and "is best for longer, high-effort Codex sessions," OpenAI says.

The company is introducing the new tier as it tries to win over users from Anthropic and its popular Claude Code tool

In September, Apple launched its latest batch of smartwatches, including the Apple Watch Series 11, the SE 3, and the Ultra 3. Each has its own pros and cons, but the introduction of Apple’s newest wearables also means there are now more Apple Watch models on the market than ever before — and a lot more deals to be had.

But with all of those options, which one should you pick

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is launching an investigation into OpenAI over public safety and national security risks, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a statement on Thursday, Uthmeier says there are concerns that OpenAI's data and technology are "falling into the hands of America's enemies, such as the Chinese Communist Party."

Uthmeier also says that OpenAI's ChatGPT has

• Andrew Pritchard concealed drugs in all kinds of places, from a dead body to coconuts and pineapples.
• In 2007, he was acquitted in a case involving $134 million worth of cocaine ($230 million today).
• After that, he said he would stop drug smuggling, but