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Airfares, hotel rates, and car rental prices are all down from last year. You didn’t think summer travel would be easy, did you? Highways and airports are likely to be jammed the next few days as Americans head out for Memorial Day weekend getaways and then return home. AAA predicts this will be the busiest start-of-summer weekend in nearly 20 years, with 43.8 million people expected to travel at least 50 miles from home between Thursday and Monday.

The ticket seller has long been criticized by music fans and artists alike due to its high prices and fees. Shares of Live Nation Entertainment were down in premarket trading on Thursday after reports that the U. S. government and some states will seek to break up the live-events giant in a lawsuit that could be filed this week.

The professors call their approach “restrained generative AI,” and they’ve already built a prototype software tool that is being piloted in 10 courses at the university this semester. When ChatGPT emerged a year and half ago, many professors immediately worried that their students would use it as a substitute for doing their own written assignments—that they’d click a button on a chatbot instead of doing the thinking involved in responding to an essay prompt themselves. 

One tower burst into flames. A wind farm in southwest Iowa suffered a direct hit from a powerful tornado that crumpled five of the massive, power-producing towers, including one that burst into flames. But experts say fortunately such incidents are rare. Video of the direct hit on the wind farm near Greenfield, Iowa, showed frightening images of the violent twister ripping through the countryside, uprooting trees, damaging buildings and sending dirt and debris high into the air.

A new tenant has been secured for a long-vacant restaurant space at the entrance to Denver’s Fox Island. Zulma Cervantes leased 5,700 square feet at 3901 Fox St., in the decade-old Fox Street Shops retail strip, to open Capri Seafood and Bar. The space was last home to The Crafty Fox Taphouse + Pizzeria, which closed in June 2019. Erik Ledezma of Call It Closed International Realty, who represented Cervantes in the deal, said Capri will serve fine seafood cuisine, similar to downtown’s Water Grill.

Eight people or companies have expressed interest in buying some or all of Tattered Cover ahead of a June 10 bid deadline and June 12 auction date, the company said. The eight parties, who have not been named, “are actively reviewing data and information” and meeting with Tattered Cover managers “to evaluate a potential offer,” the company told a U.