Task Force Talon Synapse puts about 20 US and Emirati AI specialists in Abu Dhabi, giving CENTCOM a forward model-development cell in the theater where it is already running a strike campaign.
Iran answered a second night of US strikes by firing on bases in four countries, aiming, by its own account, at a Patriot battery in Kuwait and an early-warning radar in Qatar.
Forty-nine Tomahawks in one night, eight tankers disabled and oil above $93: the April ceasefire survives mostly as a phrase both sides keep citing.