US President Trump told Al Jazeera in an interview on the 26th he "has no timetable" for when Iran will return to negotiations and is "not in a hurry." He said the US is achieving "very big victories" and that Iran faces severe inflation and a collapsing economy. Asked whether economic measures are more effective than military strikes, Trump said "I think both are effective."

Oman has halted cooperation with the United States on escorting oil tankers transiting the southern route of the Strait of Hormuz, Press TV reports.

Amazon (AMZN.O) and NVIDIA (NVDA.O) said Amazon will deploy roughly 2 million high-end NVIDIA GPUs in 2027 and 2028 for AI model training and inference. Amazon previously said in March it will install 1 million NVIDIA GPUs at AWS data centers starting this year. The latest deal covers NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra, Rubin and Rubin Ultra GPUs; unit prices are expected to be at least tens of thousands of dollars, with volume discounts for large customers.