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AI & Enterprise
Even at high prices, users stay as monthly AI subscriptions reach 1,500,000 won
More users are spending hundreds of dollars a month on premium generative AI subscriptions such as Anthropic’s Claude Max, ChatGPT Pro and Google AI Ultra, treating them as work infrastructure rather than consumer services. Some pay more than $1,000 a month to combine token limits and strengths across models. Time savings is a key factor, though complaints about high prices and weaker performance are also growing, including around Anthropic’s Opus 4.7 model.
Industry
Therabody unveils $399.99 CryoDerm Palm hand-cooling wearable
Therabody has introduced a wearable device designed to cool the palms during exercise to delay fatigue. The company unveiled the CryoDerm Palm as it expands beyond recovery devices into workout-assist products. Priced at $399.99, the device is used between sets for 1 to 3 minutes by placing hands on cooling surfaces. Therabody also says tests on University of Southern California football players showed a 58 percent average increase in reps in the final set.
AI & Enterprise
\"You are an expert\" prompts can backfire, lowering AI accuracy
Prompts that tell large language models \"you are an expert\" can reduce accuracy, a study found. A University of Southern California team tested six AI models with short and detailed expert-persona instructions. Complex expert prompts slightly improved writing and reasoning on MT-Bench but reduced quality in coding, math and humanities, and lowered overall performance on MMLU. Researchers said the instruction may divert resources from recalling facts. Results also showed gains in blocking unethical content on JailbreakBench.