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Good morning. Trump's promise to end the Iran conflict within "2 to 3 weeks" has sent markets rallying on hopes for a swift resolution, though his growing impatience with a war that's driven energy prices skyward signals a major shift in US foreign policy. Meanwhile, the Bank of England warns that the conflict is intensifying risks to the financial system and likely to hit economic growth, even as the global economy has proven surprisingly resilient to Trump's tariffs, which haven't triggered the retaliatory spiral many economists feared. On the space front, Artemis II is inching closer to launch with favorable weather conditions despite some cloud cover, potentially marking humanity's return to lunar missions after decades. In tech developments, researchers have achieved a breakthrough fiber optic record that could theoretically stream 50 million movies simultaneously, while Anthropic continues its remarkable month of AI advances and Salesforce rolls out 30 new AI features for Slack in a major platform overhaul.