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Trump Scrambles to Defend His Claim About Loving Inflation

President Donald Trump’s attempt to explain his sudden “love” for high inflation just made things so much worse.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office Wednesday, Trump brushed off a bleak inflation report finding that America’s annual inflation rate had reached its highest levels in three years.

“The numbers were great. You know what I really love? I love the inflation,” Trump…

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Um, What? Trump Says He Loves Inflation

President Donald Trump said he loves inflation.

A new report released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that the U.S.’s annual inflation rate had reached its highest levels in three years. Later, in the Oval Office, a reporter asked Trump whether the new inflation numbers concerned him. The president presented his own pathetic spin.

“No, I love it. The numbers were great. You…

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Is Scout Just a Fancy Addiction Machine like Social Media?

The surprising part is that someone put the word in a memo. They wrote it down. (Or maybe Copilot wrote it and they didn't catch it?)

What's not surprising is that this is the market strategy for an AI tool. Microsoft has a ton of money invested in AI. In many ways, they bet the company on the success of AI generally, and Copilot in particular, and the market just hasn't developed the way they…

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“That’s the Way Life Goes”: Trump Brushes Off Skyrocketing Costs

President Donald Trump doesn’t care that Americans are struggling to pay the surging costs to see their favorite sports teams.

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One Friday, Trump defended his planned trip to New York City’s Madison Square Garden to watch the third game of the NBA playoffs, where tickets are prohibitively expensive.

“They could watch it on television. It’s sort of semi-free to…

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Trump Posts Price Chart Full of “Breathtaking” Lies

The Trump administration is hoping to trick Americans into thinking that prices are going down—while the actual numbers indicate the opposite.

The U.S. Department of Labor posted a graphic on X Friday claiming that the prices of “many” goods were falling year-over-year, touting “THE TRUMP EFFECT!”

Independent journalist Justin Wolfers cross-referenced the chart with data from the Consumer Price…

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JD Vance Insists Trump Never Said He Doesn’t Care About Americans

Vice President JD Vance blatantly lied Wednesday when asked about Donald Trump’s callous remarks on Americans’ worsening financial situation.

At a press conference, Vance was asked whether he agreed with Trump’s position that Americans’ worsening financial situations should not be a consideration in the decision-making process on Iran.

“Well, I don’t think the president said that,” Vance said.…

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Trump Insists Ballroom’s Skyrocketing Cost Is No Big Deal

President Donald Trump dismissed claims Wednesday that the White House ballroom has suffered cost overrun after its price tag skyrocketed from $400 million in private donations to $1 billion sourced from American taxpayers.

Trump claimed that there was no cost overrun because he’d previously announced that the cost of construction had gone up.

“The only reason the cost has changed is because,…

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Issue in fetching OpenAI API usage, billing cost, and credit balance programmatically for backend monitoring

The only API that directly deals with billings is “get costs”, delivering daily buckets of monetary use, which can be further broken down by individual project or by “line item” (model):

OpenAI API Reference

Costs

This, again, uses an admin API key , separately created by an owner in the platform profile.

Worth Reading – Ex-Employee OneDrive Retention: Why Data Is Kept Forever

In the case of a departed user on OneDrive, there may be a cost associated with data from now-unlicensed accounts remaining in your tenant. Many people might not like hearing that, and it does seem a little petty of Microsoft to count it differently from the overall amount of storage you are allocated. On the other hand, for the Information Governance part of my day job, it's not the worst thing…

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