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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Here's your Midday Brief for Friday, April 10th. I'm Anthony Bansi for The Wall Street Journal. Consumer prices jumped 3.3% in March, the hottest reading in two years.
The number was driven higher by gasoline prices, which surged nearly 19%. That's largely due to the Strait of Hormuz being closed and disrupting global oil shipping. This report gives the first snapshot of how the war in Iran has accelerated U.S. inflation. Meanwhile, European airports are looking at severe jet fuel shortages if the Strait of Hormuz isn't fully opened within three weeks.
Chapter 2: What factors contributed to the March inflation rate jump?
In a letter to the European Commission, the head of Airports Council International Europe says a fuel crunch would ripple through the region's economy. The risk of running out of fuel comes as airplanes prepare for the critical summer travel season. And the cloud provider CoreWeave says it's partnering with Anthropic to run the startup's Clawed Artificial Intelligence models.
The partnership means that nine of the top 10 AI model providers now use CoreWeave's platform. Heads Up, an artificial intelligence tool, helped us make this episode by creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor. We'll have more coverage of the day's news on the WSJ's What's News podcast.
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