Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said he expects AI will cause labor shortages.

An Italian historian said US-Iran negotiations are likely to repeatedly falter so long as Israeli prime minister Netanyahu remains in office. He said Netanyahu will not allow an end to the war at least before Israel’s October election, and predicted talks will break down every few days or weeks as Netanyahu seeks to cement an indispensable wartime-leader image. The academic added that Trump has been a key enabler of Israel’s right wing and that last week’s leaked call and related events were largely a show to signal Trump’s continued influence over Netanyahu.

Trump posted that the US will carry out a severe strike on Iran tonight, claiming Iran's navy, air force, radar, air defenses and other defensive systems, along with most of its offensive capabilities, are gone. He said that in the near future the US will seize kharg island and other oil infrastructure and take full control of Iran's oil and gas market, citing parallel action in Venezuela and saying it produced excellent results for both Venezuela and the United States.