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AI Tool of the Week: this Perplexity feature turns your inbox into an AI workspace | Mint
Summary What if your inbox could hand work straight to AI? Perplexity's Computer in Email lets you forward an email and its attachments to an AI agent, which reads the thread and gets to work. The AI tool we unlocked today is: Perplexity Computer in Email What problem does it solve? Here is a pain point most professionals hit several times a week: someone emails you a document, a spreadsheet or a contract redline and asks you to do something with it. To get AI help, you first download the attachment, open a separate AI tool in another tab, log in, upload the file and retype context that was already sitting right there in the email. Computer in Email skips that entire loop. You forward the email you already have, attachments included, straight to [email protected], and it reads the full thread along with every file attached to it. No downloading. No separate login. No re-explaining what the email already said. How to access [email protected], available now to all Perplexity Computer users. What can it do? Skip the app switch: Kick off a full agent task without opening a browser tab or logging into anything separate. Keep the paper trail: Deliverables land in the same thread as the request, so the record and the result never split apart. Carry your context forward: Team terminology, prior decisions and preferred formats built up in earlier sessions apply automatically. Example A private equity associate is reviewing a target company before a Friday partner meeting, and the data room files have been arriving all week as attachments on one long email thread. * Prompt the content: Forward that entire thread, CIM and data room files still attached, to [email protected] with "Build a first-pass LBO model from the attached documents." * Request the output format: Add "send it back as an Excel file" and the model returns as a downloadable attachment * Specify structure: Ask it to "separate the sensitivity analysis onto its own tab" and the layout follows * Add formatting cues: Request "label all assumptions in a highlighted column" so reviewers can spot inputs at a glance What makes Computer in Email special? * No new interface to learn: The inbox is the app; there is nothing new to open or log into * Full audit trail included: Every email task creates a real Computer session with the same steps and record as one run on the web * Verified by sender, not by inbox: Computer checks who sent the task and runs it only with that person's own access, keeping permissions intact Mint's 'AI tool of the week' is excerpted from Leslie D'Monte's weekly TechTalk newsletter. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. Note: The tools and analysis featured in this section demonstrated clear value based on our internal testing. Our recommendations are entirely independent and not influenced by the tool creators. Jaspreet Bindra is co-founder and CEO, and Anuj Magazine is co-founder, of AI&Beyond.
Wisesheets Becomes an Official Perplexity Connector, Bringing Real Financial Data to Perplexity and Comet
Investors can now pull SEC-sourced financials, statements, ratios, and stock prices directly inside Perplexity, Perplexity Computer, and the Comet browser, from an affordable Bloomberg alternative Toronto, ON - September 03, 2026 - Wisesheets today announced it is available as an official Perplexity connector, letting anyone access reliable company financials and market data without leaving Perplexity. The connector works across Perplexity, including inside the agent platform, Perplexity Computer, and Perplexity's browser, Comet, so research, analysis, and answers stay in one place. Perplexity is where a growing number of investors now start their research. Until now, financial questions returned summaries scraped from around the web. With the Wisesheets connector enabled, Perplexity answers pull from structured data sourced directly from SEC EDGAR filings: income statements, balance sheets, cash flow, financial ratios, and historical stock prices for thousands of public companies. How to get financial data in Perplexity Open Perplexity, go to connectors, and enable Wisesheets. Once connected, Perplexity uses Wisesheets automatically whenever your question needs financial data. It works the same way in Comet. From there you can: * Ask for any company's revenue, margins, EPS, or free cash flow and get numbers traced to filings, not estimates * Compare fundamentals across multiple tickers in a single question * Pull historical stock prices and dividend history without switching tools * Run the analysis inside Comet while you browse, read filings, or review a portfolio "Perplexity changed how people ask questions. We are making sure that when the question is about a company's numbers, the answer is grounded in real financial data," said Guillermo, founder and CEO of Wisesheets. "This is Wisesheets doing what it has always done, being the affordable, reliable financial data layer, now inside the tools people already use." Wisesheets has served financial data to more than 70,000 users across 40 countries as an affordable alternative to the Bloomberg Terminal, through its Excel and Google Sheets add-ins, REST API, and MCP connectors. The Perplexity connector extends that same data into conversational research at a fraction of the cost of a terminal. The Wisesheets connector for Perplexity is available now. Learn more at wisesheets.io/api. About Us Wisesheets has served financial data to more than 70,000 users across 40 countries as an affordable alternative to the Bloomberg Terminal, through its Excel and Google Sheets add-ins, REST API, and MCP connectors. The Perplexity connector extends that same data into conversational research at a fraction of the cost of a terminal.
This free, open-source browser made me ditch Perplexity Comet, Dia, and Opera Neon
Around the same time last year, AI browsers were the hot new thing. It felt like every other company wanted to rethink the browser around AI, with names like Dia, Perplexity's Comet, Opera's Neon, and even ChatGPT's Atlas all promising to change the way we use the web. While the hype has now largely died down, both from the companies building these browsers and the people actually using them, I still think there's something useful about the idea itself. Sure, the way most companies approached AI browsers often felt a little overdone and came with very genuine concerns, but having AI built directly into the browser did have its benefits. Fortunately, it turns out you don't need to hand your browsing over to one of these companies to get them. I recently came across BrowserOS, a free, open-source AI browser that promises much of what drew me to Comet, Dia, and Opera Neon in the first place, without quite as much baggage. BrowserOS is an open-source AI browser built on Chromium Chrome at heart, AI on top While there are now a bunch of AI browsers that are built on Chromium, BrowserOS is a fully open-source Chromium fork. That means the browser itself, along with the agent platform powering its AI features, is out in the open rather than being locked behind a proprietary product. This means that you have complete freedom to inspect the code, see exactly how the browser and its AI features work, and even modify or build on it yourself if you want to. BrowserOS is licensed under AGPL-3.0, and its repo even lays out the Chromium patches, build system, agent server, and browser UI that make everything work. Given that it's Chromium-based, it also feels immediately familiar. There's practically no learning curve, and importing your existing browsing data from Chrome takes seconds. All your Chrome extensions work too, and you can bring over your bookmarks, passwords, and settings in one click, which makes BrowserOS feel less like switching browsers and more like adding AI to the one you're already used to. BrowserOS doesn't lock you into one provider Pick your brain I've interacted with a lot of people who experimented with AI browsers during its initial hype, and the most frequent complaint I'd hear was privacy. Given that a browser is the one app you use to access practically everything on the internet, handing even more of that activity over to an AI company understandably made a lot of people uncomfortable. Comet keeps you within the models Perplexity chooses to support, while Opera Neon gives you a wider model selector but still largely revolves around the models and AI services Opera integrates into the browser. Similarly, ChatGPT Atlas was designed around ChatGPT itself, with OpenAI's models powering the browser's AI features. BrowserOS is much more flexible. You can bring your own API keys, use OAuth with an existing ChatGPT subscription, or skip the cloud entirely and run a local model through Ollama or LM Studio. The browser suppers over eleven providers including Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, OpenAI, Moonshot Kimii, and OpenRouter, which gives you access to over 500 models. Now, this in no way means that BrowserOS sacrifices the actual AI-browser experience in exchange for flexibility. You still get the kind of agentic features you'd expect from the bigger names, including an AI that can understand what's on a page, navigate websites, fill out forms, extract information, and carry out multi-step tasks on your behalf. It has everything you'll find in the bigger AI browsers All the AI browser tricks are here Close First, there's the familiar AI side panel. BrowserOS lets you keep your assistant of choice open alongside whatever page you're browsing, so you can ask questions about what's on-screen, summarize something, compare information, or just use it like a normal chatbot without leaving the tab. Side-panel assistants have become almost standard across AI browsers, but BrowserOS gives you the advantage of letting you choose what's actually powering it. The more interesting part is always Agent Mode. This is where BrowserOS starts behaving much more like Comet, Opera Neon, or Atlas rather than simply sticking a chatbot next to your webpages. You can give it a task and let it actually navigate the web, click through pages, read information, and work through multiple steps on your behalf. For instance, I've used flight searches as a bit of a recurring test whenever I've tried an agentic browser. I gave BrowserOS a simple request to find flights from Karachi to Berlin for a specific set of dates. Rather than just returning a list of links or telling me where to search, it opened Google Flights in another tab, entered the route and dates itself, waited for the results to load, and then worked through the available options before summarizing the ones that made the most sense. There's no subscription attached Perplexity Comet started at $200/month. Two hundred dollars! Opera Neon spent months behind a waitlist before opening up at roughly $20 a month, while Dia introduced a $20/month Pro tier for heavier AI use. Given that BrowserOS is open-source, it's completely free to use. That said, if you choose to use it via an API key, you'll still need to shoulder whatever usage costs your chosen model provider charges. If you already pay for ChatGPT and connect through OAuth, or run a local model through Ollama or LM Studio, you can avoid adding another browser subscription on top!
I found this Claude feature so good that I canceled ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity
Parth, a seasoned tech writer, wields the keyboard (or pen) with finesse to unravel the intricacies of both Windows and Mac operating systems. He has covered evergreen content on mobile devices and computers for multiple publications over the last six years. You can find his work on AndroidPolice, GuidingTech and TechWiser. Whether it's demystifying system updates, deciphering error codes, or exploring hidden features, Parth's prose guides readers through the binary maze. When not immersed in tech jargon, you'll find him sipping chai, pondering the next software review, and occasionally indulging in a friendly debate about mechanical keyboards. I have spent enough time switching between ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude to know that most AI assistants are starting to feel similar. Switching between them often comes down to small differences in speed, integrations, or output quality. But recently, I came across something in Claude that felt different (in a positive way). Once I started using Claude Design for actual projects, I just didn't find myself opening the other apps much anymore -- so canceling them felt like an easy call. What is Claude Design, anyway? It doesn't aim to rival Figma or PowerPoint Claude Design feels like a separate creative workspace built around Claude. The interface makes that obvious: a conversation area on one side and a visual canvas on the other. I can explain what I want in plain English, and Claude starts building it directly on the canvas instead of just telling me how to create it myself. Claude Design is Anthropic's beta tool for creating visual work through conversation. It can handle mockups, interactive prototypes, presentations, landing pages, microsites, and other design concepts. With a traditional chatbot, I might ask for ideas for a dashboard and get a written description, some HTML, or perhaps an image. Here, the design itself becomes the thing I am working on. It almost feels like having an AI-powered design app sitting inside my existing subscription. I can start with a rough idea, watch Claude turn it into something visual, and then continue working on the same project rather than copying the output into another tool. And that's before getting into the editing, prototyping, design system, and export features that made it useful for me. I can go from an idea to something tangible There are so many use cases Close This is where Claude Design started making a real difference in my workflow. I often have an idea in my head, but I don't necessarily want to spend an hour opening Figma, PowerPoint, or Canva just to see whether it works. With Claude Design, I can start with a rough description and turn it into something I can view, share, and refine. The built-in templates make the process even faster. I can even set up a design system, so Claude has a consistent set of colors, typography, components, and visual rules to follow across a project. This becomes useful when I want several screens or assets to feel like they belong to the same product. If I am discussing a jewelry e-commerce website, for example, I can quickly mock up a premium-looking storefront with product cards, category sections, filters, and a checkout flow. For a food delivery app, I can create mobile screens showing restaurants, menus, carts, and order tracking. And if I am working on something different, such as a presentation about financial planning, I can turn the same rough ideas into a polished deck with charts, layouts, and a consistent visual language. That flexibility is what makes Claude Design so useful to me. I am not limited to websites or app interfaces. One day I can be working on a client wireframe, the next on a presentation, diagram, flyer, or animation. The possibilities are endless. The Claude Code handoff sold me I'm not locked inside Claude afterward The part that sold me on Claude Design is what happens after I am happy with a concept. I don't have to treat the mockup as the end of the road. Claude Design can hand the project directly to Claude Code, which makes the transition from design to development much more natural. That changes how I approach quick client work. If I create a jewelry e-commerce mockup and the client likes the overall direction, I can move that design into Claude Code and start turning it into a working site instead of rebuilding the structure from scratch. The same applies to a food delivery app concept. I can first focus on the visual hierarchy, screens, navigation, and overall feel in Claude Design, then hand it over when I am ready to think about implementation. I also appreciate that Claude Design doesn't force me to keep everything inside Claude. Once I am done, I can export the project in several useful formats, including PDF, PPTX, standalone HTML, or a ZIP file. I can also send designs directly to tools such as Canva and other supported services. That removes one of my biggest concerns with AI creation tools: getting something impressive on screen, only to realize that it's trapped inside the service that generated it. Claude became more than a chatbot Canceling ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity wasn't really about deciding that Claude is better at everything. Most AI assistants can already handle the basics and code well. But Claude Design is what finally broke that pattern for me. It gave me a practical way to turn rough ideas into polished visuals, prototypes, and concepts without jumping between multiple tools. That one feature made it a complete creative workspace. I still think the competition has plenty of strengths, but for the way I work right now, Claude gives me something uniquely different. Claude Claude is an AI assistant that rivals ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. See at Claude Expand Collapse
