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Iran has escalated regional tensions with a drone strike targeting Bahrain, the first known attack on the Gulf country in roughly two months. The United States confirmed it intercepted the strike, a development that underscores the persistent low-level conflict Iran is waging across the Gulf and raises fresh concerns about regional stability and energy corridor security.
Shifting to technology, Amazon has revealed that its new cloud testing tool for AWS was built entirely without human authorship or review of the underlying code. The company says people constructed the guardrails, but the code itself is entirely machine-generated, marking one of the more striking public admissions yet about just how far autonomous AI development has advanced inside a major enterprise.
And in the chip sector, Bank of America has revised its price target on AMD following the confirmed resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Nvidia shed more than four percent on the news, while AMD surged nearly six percent and Broadcom gained over five and a half, suggesting investors wasted no time rotating toward Nvidia's closest rivals as uncertainty clouds the company's leadership transition.
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