Trump thanked Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for their efforts on Iran.

WTI crude slid below US$75/bbl for the first time since March 4, down 2.22% intraday.

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.