Luke Vargas

Those are Trump's words there.

Do we see any indication of that?

Just at least in terms of the pace of attacks that we've been witnessing, clearly someone is making military decisions still and a lot of them.

I've been speaking to Wall Street Journal correspondent Suna Rasmussen.

Suna, thank you as always.

Thanks for having me.

Coming up, we'll look at the market impact of the conflict as some investors predict we could see $100 a barrel oil this week.

That and the rest of the day's news after the break.

Oil prices are surging as strikes on ships in and around the Strait of Hormuz have thrust one of the world's key choke points for energy into the crossfire.

Natural gas prices have also jumped, and investors wary of a wider conflict in the Middle East are flocking to safe havens like gold and the dollar.

Iranian officials and media have shared conflicting statements about whether Tehran intends to block sea traffic through the strait, but Dow Jones commodities reporter Julia Petroni says the uncertainty is already having a major market impact.

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.