As companies seek to close growing gaps in skills and talent,

Deloitte US CEO Jason Garzatus believes it's important for organizations to understand their baseline of skills.

There's so many organizations that can't ask and answer the fundamental questions about how much computer science or data management skills do I have or AI development skills in a given domain? By performing a

skills inventory, leaders can truly understand where their efforts should be focused. Being blind

to those gaps is the real miss. Visit Deloitte.com to learn how your enterprise can help successfully

cultivate talent. Here's your morning brief for Thursday, January 15th. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal.

President Trump appears to be backing off threats of an imminent attack on Iran. After previously stating

that help is on the way, Trump told reporters yesterday that Iran had stopped killing protesters

accused of trying to topple the government. Iran briefly

closed its airspace overnight, a step it took during fighting with Israel last year, though it's

since been reopened. Should Trump decide to authorize an attack, his options could be reigned in

by his redeployment of forces to the Caribbean, which have left the U.S. without an aircraft carrier strike group

in the Middle East. California's Attorney General is investigating Elon Musk's AI chatbot GROC over

deepfakes. XAI is being probed by authorities around the world, following controversy over GROC's

ability to generate sexual imagery of women and children. The company says it is now

actively blocking the chat brought from undressing images of real people where it is illegal.

And Invidia and Apple's relentless demand for AI chips boosted TSM to record profits in 2025.

The results are a relief for investors concerned about the cost of bringing semiconductor

production to American soil, as the world's largest contract chipmaker looks to mitigate the

impact of U.S. tariffs. Shares of Dutch semiconductor firm ASML, a major supplier for TSM,

jumped 5% in the Netherlands on the news. Asian stocks ended the day mixed. European stocks are

little changed in midday trading, and U.S. stock futures are edging up ahead of earnings from

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