Report: Iranian Oil Profits Doubled Since Start of War

"No More Mr. Nice Guy": Trump Sends Witkoff To Pakistan For U.S.-Iran Talks As Hormuz Traffic Freezes By Sunday morning, the latest Bloomberg ship tracking data showed that tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz had largely ground to a halt. There were multiple incidents of tankers U-turning over the last 24 hours. At the same time, a senior Iranian official renewed threats to close the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. The Hormuz chokepoint (closed once again after briefly opening on Friday morning) comes as the US blockade of Iranian ports remains in...

Oil Drops On Reports Of Iran-Oman Coordination To Reopen Hormuz Strait, While Exchange Of Strikes With US-Israel Intensify Summary No mention of ceasefire while vowing to keep hitting Iran 'extremely hard' in Wed. night Trump speech. Escalating tit-for-tat overnight strikes. Oil drops on reports of Iran-Oman coordination to reopen strait. US intelligence assessments say Iran is not ready to negotiate given it believes it has the strategic upper-hand, and doesn't believe Trump is 'serious' about talks: NYT Highest bridge in Iran, connecting Tehran and Karaj, destroyed - amid reports of expanding attacks on civilian...

Does Altman Molotov Attack Portend Pitchforks Over AI? Things might be going kinetic in the backlash against data centers and AI.  On Friday, a 20-year-old suspect set on burning down OpenAI headquarters was charged and arrested following a predawn Molotov cocktail attack on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home on Russian Hill in San Francisco, whose driveway is shown Friday, was the target of an incendiary device, police said. Lea Suzuki/S.F. Chronicle Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama, 20, from Texas, was arrested and booked into County...