Iran's Revolutionary Guards escalated threats to halt all Middle Eastern oil shipments if attacks continue, prompting Trump to warn of even harder strikes—though oil prices actually fell over 6% after the president predicted a swift end to the conflict (BBC, Reuters). Australia and France are deploying military assets to secure regional maritime routes.

Yann LeCun's new venture Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) raised $1.03 billion to develop reasoning-focused AI systems built on world models (TechCrunch). Democratic senators are demanding congressional hearings on Iran policy as the conflict intensifies.