The prolonged Middle East conflict, which has dragged into its fifth month, has begun to take a toll on U.S. soldiers' mental health. Mental health challenges aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have been acknowledged by U.S. Central Command following reports that a sailor had jumped overboard amid the aircraft carrier's long Middle East deployment.
U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed that the Strait of Hormuz would soon become U.S. territory, a claim that has been rebuffed by Iran. Trump has also asked the Pentagon to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea.
In market news, Anthropic's revenue reportedly surged more than 14-fold in the second quarter from a year earlier, while Google's parent company, Alphabet, is now the third largest holding in Berkshire Hathaway's equity portfolio.
