Luke Vargas

Should Iran shut this straight, several banks are predicting $100 a barrel oil could be in play, a type of price jump that would push up the cost of fuel for cars, power plants, and more the world over.

U.S.

forces reportedly used Anthropix AI to coordinate airstrikes in Iran, defying a White House order to stop working with the company.

The move underscores how deeply embedded the technology remains in military operations, in spite of growing tensions between the Pentagon and the tech firm.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei addressed the friction in an exclusive interview with CBS this weekend.

Despite the federal blacklist, Anthropix AI bot Claude has surged to the top of the Apple App Store, outperforming rivals ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

The rise follows a public backlash against OpenAI after its recent government partnership.

Meanwhile, NVIDIA says it plans to release a new processor designed to help open AI and other customers to build faster and more efficient tools.

People familiar with the details say the company is creating a system for so-called inference computing, a form of processing that allows AI models to respond to queries.

And EV sales in China dropped sharply last month, highlighting a tough road ahead for Chinese carmakers after years of rapid growth and aggressive expansion.

Sales of BYD vehicles, the world's biggest EV seller, were down 41 percent from a year earlier,

The data comes ahead of one of the year's biggest policy events for China watchers.

This week's National People's Congress is expected to approve a five-year economic blueprint that will prioritize turning China into a technological superpower that can rival the U.S.

And that's it for What's News for this Monday morning.

Today's show was produced by Hattie Moyer and Daniel Bach.

Our supervising producer is Sandra Kilhoff.

And I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal.

We will be back tonight with a new show.

Until then, thanks for listening.

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