The US-Iran ceasefire is coming apart. American forces struck multiple targets inside Iran — surveillance infrastructure, air defence sites, drone storage, minelayer capabilities — and Iran responded by hitting military installations in Kuwait and Bahrain. Both sides are accusing the other of breaking the truce. The immediate market consequence is in the Strait of Hormuz: NYK’s chief executive Takaya Soga says safe shipping routes are now “extremely limited,” with traffic running at roughly half pre-war levels, and that mines will constrain passage for months. That is a persistent supply-chain and energy freight story, not a one-day spike.

On the tech and AI side, Google has capped the volume of Meta’s access to Gemini as surging demand strains compute capacity. It is a small but pointed signal that raw infrastructure is now the binding constraint on AI deployment, ahead of model quality or pricing. Separately, Paul Meade — the Apple vice president who ran Vision Pro — is reportedly leaving to join OpenAI’s hardware team. Apple loses a senior executive; OpenAI gains someone with direct experience shipping consumer hardware at scale, which matters given the company’s reported ambitions in that space.

The Economist flags that Trump is actively pushing Chinese firms out of the US green-tech sector while allowing their underlying technology to remain, absorbed by American investors buying stranded assets cheaply. The practical effect is a quiet transfer of Chinese clean-energy IP into domestic hands — relevant for anyone watching the energy transition trade or US-China decoupling plays.

South Korea has announced plans to train its entire half-million-strong military on drones as a “universal combat tool.” Taken alongside the Hormuz situation, it adds to the picture of accelerating military drone demand globally, with implications for defence procurement and the relevant supply chains.

The main scheduled event for the next 48 hours: UK mortgage approvals and consumer credit data from the Bank of England are due Monday morning.

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Guardian, BBC News, Al Jazeera, The Economist, FT, TechCrunch, Politico, Ars Technica — 2026-06-28