President Trump said laser weapons are highly effective against certain types of slower-moving missiles and predicted they will be the future.

President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to reject calls from senior AI figures to slow the development of large models, saying at the Irish Open he wants the United States to remain the world leader and that “whoever wins AI, wins everything.” The comments follow a Saturday joint appeal by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI founder Elon Musk to slow the pace of AI capability increases; Trump called those warnings driven by “negative forces” and based on scenarios “that won’t happen.”

UKMTO said a fully laden oil tanker was struck by a missile in the Strait of Hormuz and is reported to be seriously ablaze. The agency earlier reported a Panama-flagged tanker was attacked while transiting the Strait and had lost propulsion.