Luke Vargas

We will not let off you until you accept your mistake and pay the price for it, end quote.

Well, as the U.S.

and Iran appear to be sticking to their war goals, the journal's Anat Peled told us that Israel is for the first time publicly acknowledging that regime change in Iran may be unlikely.

Anat, if Israel is sort of backing off of that immediate regime change goal and protesters aren't flooding the streets just yet, is there a risk that Israel and the U.S.

kind of begin to break rank in their desire to press the fight here?

Anat, thank you as always for the update.

In markets news today, investors looking for safety have driven the U.S.

dollar to a more than three-month high and analysts are expecting further strengthening.

The euro, meanwhile, is at a seven-month low.

The U.K.

economy stalled unexpectedly in January, a worrying sign as the global energy crisis threatens to strain household budgets.

The country's budget watchdog earlier this month forecast yearly growth of just 1.1 percent, a slowdown from 2025.

Apple is lowering the fees for digital sales in its Chinese App Store from 30 to 25 percent, a move designed to defuse a regulatory showdown in its top overseas market.

Despite the change, China remains one of Apple's priciest jurisdictions for consumers and developers.

And TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance is assembling computing power with high-end NVIDIA chips outside of China, circumventing U.S.

export restrictions.

We've learned that ByteDance is working with a Southeast Asian company called Aolani Cloud on plans to use NVIDIA's Blackwell chips in Malaysia at a likely cost of more than $2.5 billion.

The journal's John Emott says the computing power would be used to fuel ByteDance's AI research and development.

ByteDance currently operates five of the world's 50 most popular AI consumer apps by monthly active users, according to a recent ranking by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Coming up, rising health insurance costs are forcing companies to get creative as they try to dull the pain for workers.