* US inflation rose 7.5% during the 12-month period ending in Jan., according to newly released government data. The largest increase since Feb. 1982. What is even more alarming is that the cost of energy was up 27%.

* Joe Rogan announced that he will not accept a $100 million offer from video platform Rumble. The company’s CEO offered him the contract in a widely shared social media post amid controversy over Rogan’s future at Spotify. Rogan, who has come under fire for spreading COVID misinformation and using racial slurs on his podcast, has been the target of an intense online effort to pressure Spotify into getting rid of him. “Spotify has hung in with me, inexplicably,” Rogan said, “let’s see what happens.”

* UFC champion Israel Adesanya defended Joe Rogan. Click here.