Neal Freiman

When he was building Amazon in the early 90s, I mean, he was studying Sam Walton.

That was the guy that he was saying, as I'm building my online bookseller, I'm focused on what Sam Walton did.

And now to have Amazon pass it, it's quite an achievement to make, what, $717 billion a year.

How much do you contribute to that?

You don't buy stuff on Amazon?

Well, I bought a lot of cloud computing space from Amazon Web Services.

Okay, let's sprint to the finish with some final headline.

Oil prices have surged to their highest levels since last summer as President Trump considers whether to strike Iran, potentially disrupting flows in a region home to about a third of the world's crude.

Over the past few days, the U.S.

military has moved more

More assets, tankers, carriers, fighter jets into the Middle East than at any point since the buildup to the Iraq war in 2003.

The sheer scale of military hardware in the area suggests that should Trump decide to go after the regime in Tehran, it'd be an extensive campaign that could last many days.

Seems Trump hasn't made up his mind yet.

Yesterday morning, he said, maybe we're going to make a deal referring to stalled nuclear talks.

You're going to be finding out over the next probably 10 days.

Up next, Accenture wants you to use AI so bad that it won't give you a promotion without it.

In an industry first, the consulting giant told senior staff that they would have to regularly use the company's AI tools to be considered for promotion to senior roles, according to the Financial Times.

CEO Julia Sweet would be the first consulting boss to do this.

She is more bullish on AI than Oscar Isaac and Ex Machina,

inking deals with OpenAI and Anthropic to leverage their tech across her company.