Por Kevin Liptak, CNN

Mucho ha cambiado desde que el presidente Donald Trump se dirigió al Congreso hace un año. Pero en un aspecto, al menos, su discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión de este martes por la noche parece que será similar al que dio durante su última visita al recinto de la Cámara de Representantes.

“Va a ser un discurso largo”, dijo, tras haber pronunciado el discurso ante una sesión conjunta más largo de la historia el pasado marzo. “Tenemos mucho de qué hablar”.

Después de un año de agitación política y de caída en su popularidad, Trump ciertamente tendrá mucho que abordar cuando suba al estrado este martes a las 9 p.m., hora del este. Tradicionalmente, el Estado de la Unión —una enumeración tanto de logros como de propuestas de políticas— suele contar con la mayor audiencia televisiva del año para un presidente.

Para Trump, que aparece en distintos espacios de televisión varias veces por semana, el desafío será ir más allá de los autoelogios, los agravios y las promesas vagas que suelen caracterizar sus discursos habituales. En el pasado, ha llegado a este discurso con al menos algunas sorpresas, ya sea contenidas en sus palabras o en forma de invitados sentados en las galerías.

Estas son cuatro cosas a seguir en el discurso de Trump:

Trump entrará al recinto de la Cámara de Representantes este martes buscando desafiar las expectativas históricas: como suele decir con frecuencia, los partidos de los presidentes en funciones suelen sufrir reveses en las elecciones intermedias.

Y los republicanos esperan que su discurso funcione como punto de partida del mensaje de campaña para una temporada electoral que bien podría depender de la propia posición de Trump entre los votantes estadounidenses.

Durante una sesión privada de estrategia política realizada la semana pasada entre altos funcionarios del Gobierno de Trump, encuestadores y estrategas plantearon un punto —quizás nada sorprendente—: los temas económicos marcarán las elecciones de noviembre y enfocarse en ellos es imperativo. En una encuesta de CNN realizada antes del discurso, el 57 % de los estadounidenses señaló que la economía y el costo de vida eran el tema más importante de cara al mensaje del martes.

Trump, sin embargo, suele tener otros planes. Incluso los discursos centrados, en apariencia, en la economía terminan desviándose hacia otros temas, incluida su ofensiva migratoria y viejos agravios contra personas que desaprueba.

Cuando habla de la economía, suele hacerlo para elogiar su fortaleza relativa, un enfoque que algunos asesores republicanos temen que minimice las preocupaciones económicas de los estadounidenses.

El discurso del martes estará cuidadosamente estructurado con referencias a iniciativas para reducir costos, incluidas la baja en los precios de los medicamentos recetados y los recortes de impuestos. Pero muchos estadounidenses siguen diciendo que la economía no está funcionando, lo que supone una prueba para Trump al momento de reconocer que aún hay trabajo por hacer.

Cuatro días antes del discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión, la Corte Suprema asestó un golpe a uno de los pilares de su agenda: los aranceles unilaterales que ha utilizado como herramienta de presión en el mundo, tanto en comercio como en su política exterior más amplia.

Trump insiste en que aún tiene alternativas. Ya anunció que aplicaría un arancel global del 15 % utilizando otra facultad —distinta, pero no probada—. Aun así, la decisión representó un golpe, que provocó una fuerte molestia en Trump incluso días después y casi con certeza obligó a hacer algunos cambios en el discurso que planeaba pronunciar.

Uno de los principales problemas para Trump derivados del fallo del tribunal fue la lista de políticas que, según ha afirmado, se financ

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By Randi Kaye, Taylor Romine, Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN

(CNN) — The family of Nancy Guthrie is offering up to $1 million for information leading to her recovery, a tearful “Today” host Savannah Guthrie said in a video posted to her Instagram on Tuesday — 23 days after her mother vanished from her desert home in the middle of the night.

Savannah Guthrie acknowledged that her 84-year-old mother, who has been missing since February 1, “may already be gone.”

“But we need to know where she is. We need her to come home. For that reason we are offering a family reward of up to $1 million for any information that leads us to her recovery,” she said.

The reward is in addition to the FBI’s $100,000 reward for information about Guthrie, the agency said Tuesday.

“So please, if you hear this message, if you’ve been waiting and you haven’t been sure, let this be your sign to please come forward, tell what you know and help us bring our beloved mom home so that we can either celebrate a glorious, miraculous homecoming or celebrate the beautiful, brave and courageous and noble life that she has lived,” Savannah Guthrie said in the video, her first since February 15.

The reward announcement ends more than a week of silence from the Guthrie family, who had been posting regular video updates. Investigative updates from authorities have also slowed as the search enters its fourth week, though the case continues to draw national interest.

“We still believe. We still believe. We still believe that she can come home. Hope against hope, as my sister says, we are blowing on the embers of hope,” Savannah Guthrie added in the video.

Savannah Guthrie also announced a $500,000 donation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, saying she hopes the attention given to her family will extend to all those missing loved ones.

Meanwhile, new details have emerged about the masked person seen on doorbell camera footage at Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home. The suspect visited her doorstep on multiple occasions, not just the morning she is believed to have been kidnapped, a source told CNN.

The photos and video of the masked person on Guthrie’s doorstep — released by the FBI on February 10 — were taken on two different days, rather than just on February 1, when authorities believe she was abducted, the source said. That’s because the masked suspect is not wearing a backpack in one of them, according to the source.

ABC News first reported the suspect appears to have been at her door before February 1.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Monday “there is no date or time stamp associated with these images” and “any suggestion that the photographs were taken on different days is purely speculative.” It added the investigation is ongoing and “conclusions will be guided by ver

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By Hadas Gold, CNN

New York (CNN) — Just weeks after its new AI tools for the office shook software stocks, Anthropic is pushing even deeper into the workplace.

The company is updating its Claude AI helper to perform better at tasks for specific jobs, such as design, human resources and wealth management roles, while also enabling it to work within applications like Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint apps. Anthropic made the announcement during a virtual event on Tuesday.

Anthropic launched Claude Cowork in January with the goal of expanding the usefulness of its popular coding tool to more types of office work. It’s made several updates since then, first by adding plugins that make it better at jobs like financial and legal analysis. Then, it upgraded the AI model that powers the agent and launched a new tool for cybersecurity work. Now, it’s furthering that push into broader office work with even more industry-specific tools.

The AI company’s rapid-fire updates and improvements have given Wall Street whiplash, making investors nervous that AI could soon make other businesses’ products obsolete and lead to mass layoffs. Anthropic strongly denies that – it says it’s not trying to replace products from enterprise software companies, which are deeply embedded in businesses’ systems and maintain trusted tools to handle sensitive, proprietary data.

Instead, Anthropic’s Scott White, head of product for enterprise, said the company is building something complementary to work with existing software and tools. Anthropic views itself “as a platform, not a product, trying to own every workflow,” White said.

But Anthropic’s fast development speed remains critical in a sea of competitors breathing down its neck. Rival OpenAI is ramping up its own enterprise offerings.

How Claude’s new tool works

Instead of using Claude as a separate chatbot, it can now live inside enterprise software tools, pulling context and data without users needing to leave the window they’re working in. The idea is to make it so that Claude could, for example, use spreadsheet data to create slide presentations the way a person would.

That should make it much easier for users to interact with Claude without having to copy and paste information between apps, according to White, who claims that should make Claude “like a real, fully capable virtual collaborator.”

The new plugins for specific fields will also make Claude better at tasks such as modeling scenarios in private equity work, developing job descriptions and offer letters in human resources, putting together creative briefs for design-related work and summarizing vendor proposals for operations-related tasks. Anthropic says it worked with companies like FactSet, S&P and LSEG for the financial services plugins and Apollo for private equity tools.

Companies will be able to customize the plugins to work with the apps used by their organization, such as Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, DocuSign and others.

Software rattled

Anthropic’s announcement comes after the quiet rollout of several industry-specific Claude Cowork plugins rattled software stocks in early February, raising concerns that the tool could challenge existing analytics and research products. A software industry ETF fell nearly 6% in a single day back then, its worst session since April. Thomson Reuters saw its biggest single-day stock drop on record in early February, plunging nearly 16%. LegalZoom sank almost 20%. FactSet dropped more than 10%. European data analytics giant RELX fell 14%.

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