US initial jobless claims for the week to June 13 were 226,000, versus 225,000 expected; prior week revised up to 230,000 from 229,000.

NATO Secretary-General Rutte said additional funding is essential, but dollars or euros alone cannot stop missiles or armored vehicles; the money must be converted rapidly into combat-capable forces.

Iranian state media said a Microsoft AI called Claude, normally used for answering user queries, was repurposed in operations against Iran to identify and prioritize military targets. Tehran alleged the tool analyzed large volumes of satellite imagery, location data and communications signals to enable US and Israeli forces to select targets and recommend weapons in under a second. Iran said the system depended on cloud infrastructure provided by Amazon and Microsoft and that events in Tehran, Gaza and Lebanon exposed what it described as close ties between those tech firms and US/Israeli military operations.