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With many users feeling uneasy about Discord's new age verification requirement, here are some alternatives that could be worth exploring.

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Fox Business: Inflation Much Hotter Than Expected

During Trump's State of the Union speech on Tuesday, he claimed inflation was "plummeting" under his leadership, and he used bogus information to defend his erroneous claims.

"Today our border is secure, our spirit is restored, inflation is plummeting, incomes are rising fast, the roaring economy is roaring like never before, and our enemies are scared," he said.

Today's PPI report proved him wrong as inflation was much hotter than expected, which has driven the markets way down in early trading.

CNBC reported, "The core PPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, increased a seasonally adjusted 0.8%, more than the 0.6% gain in December and well ahead of the Dow Jones consensus estimate for 0.3%".

That's a huge gain.

I tuned in to Maria Bartiromo's morning program to see how she handled the bad news in the inflation report, and the MAGA Queen did her best to make it seem like it's not a big deal.

When Stuart Varney opened up his program, he did not try to sugarcoat the results.

VARNEY: The question of the day, is inflation cooling?

Answer, looking at the Producer Price Index, no, it is not cooling.

It's hotter.

This is what used to be called the Wholesale Price Index. It measures costs to business.

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Anthropic’s Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute

Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.

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The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom

Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.

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Poll: Dems' Real Problem With Voters? They're Seen As Too Weak

There's this substack, "Strength In Numbers," run by a data guy, G. Elliott Morris. He used to be the editorial director of Data Analytics at ABC News, where he ran the data-journalism website FiveThirtyEight. Before that, he was the data journalist for The Economist, and runs his own consulting firm, Morris Predictive Insights.

And he just came up with some interesting polling on Democrats versus Republicans.

In his new February poll, 53% of U.S. adults say the Democratic Party is out of touch with the concerns of most Americans. An identical percentage — 53% — say the same about Republicans.

He tested out the "Democrats are too liberal and need to tack to the center" theory, and concluded the opposite.

"When Americans say Democrats are “out of touch” they don’t only — or even primarily — mean “too progressive.” This type of thinking is another example of people committing the Strategist’s Fallacy instead of thinking about what is really being measured by the poll question being asked.

But it's pretty wonky, go read the whole thing. He concludes:

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Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: What’s actually at stake?

Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and who sets the rules for military AI.

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Sophia Space raises $10M seed to demo novel space computers

The company's modular computer tiles offer a new vision for space data centers.

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