The building blocks of the technology industry are deeply dependent on petroleum flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, says David Fickling for Bloomberg Opinion.
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has said the company has "no choice" but to challenge in court the Pentagon's formal designation of the artificial intelligence firm as a risk to US national security.
The price for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, jumped 8.5 per cent as the US-Israel war upended the world's energy and transport sectors.
