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Tit-for-tat escalation: an Iranian drone hits a crude tanker, the US strikes military sites, and the ceasefire holds in name only.

CNBC and PBS reported the Kiku was struck before CENTCOM said it targeted Iranian surveillance, communications, air-defense, drone-storage and minelayer capability in response to 'continued Iranian attacks on commercial shipping.' UKMTO raised its threat level to substantial as the 60-day ceasefire came under acute strain.

The strait stays open and traffic continues; the US answers Iranian provocations with force while the ceasefire framework holds.

Fox News framed the day as decisive US deterrence — additional strikes on Iran after the latest ship attack — with the administration stressing the strait remains open and oil flowing, and casting Iranian aggression as the destabilizing factor against an otherwise-functioning truce.

Western coverage foregrounds the energy-corridor risk and mutual blame as a Gulf state hosting US forces is targeted.

Al Jazeera reported the two governments trading blame for violating the ceasefire after the strikes, with Iranian drones reaching Bahrain and Kuwait — host nations for US forces — casting the exchange as a dangerous escalation even as crude held pre-war lows and tankers kept transiting.

Prices are rising at the fastest pace in three years, with pressures broadening beyond energy.

CNBC and CBS reported core PCE at 3.4% (highest since October 2023) and headline at 4.1%, both above forecasts, emphasizing that inflation is becoming more widespread — partly tariff-fed — and reinforcing the Fed’s newly hawkish posture under Chair Warsh.

Inflation accelerated again, vindicating Warsh's hawkish pivot and the case for a rate hike.

Fox Business framed the print as evidence the Fed must restore credibility after five years above its 2% target, casting Warsh’s scrapping of a 2026 cut and openness to a hike as the disciplined response to re-accelerating prices.

Government overreach is reaching into model releases, and even OpenAI is pushing back.

Engadget and TechCrunch highlighted OpenAI’s discomfort with a launch gated to government-approved customers, noting the company said such restrictions "shouldn’t be the norm" and that the precedent of state-vetted access to frontier AI raises civil-liberties and competition concerns.

National-security gating of frontier AI extends the trusted-partner model with administration sign-off.

Axios framed the release as a security-era launch — the government requesting both access and the customer list — consistent with the earlier customer-by-customer gating of Anthropic’s most capable models.