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Here is your morning brief for Friday, March 20th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.

The U.S. military is scaling up efforts to try and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. We report that

the operation involves attacking Iranian naval vessels with low-flying jets and hunting drones

with Apache helicopters, an effort meant to clear away a web of Iranian assets that have harassed traffic

through the maritime choke point. While Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. has now

damaged or destroyed more than 120 Iranian naval vessels, experts say that the mission could take

weeks to show results. Adding urgency to the mission is a new projection from Saudi officials

that oil prices could top $180 a barrel if disruption to the region's energy supplies continues into next month.

Blue Origin has formerly entered the race to develop AI data centers in space following Elon Musk's SpaceX and startup StarCloud.

In filing with the Federal Communications Commission, Jeff Bezos's company said it's seeking permission to deploy more than 50,000 solar-powered satellites in order to meet growing demand for AI computing.

The company says the effort known as Project Sunrise will allow it to operate in an environment free from the red tape that's

complicated the development of terrestrial facilities. And we're exclusively reporting that OpenAI

plans to bring together ChatGPT and its coding platform codex into a desktop super app. Executives

at OpenAI say the shift aims to simplify the user experience following a year of work on standalone products that didn't always resonate with users, as the company aims to beat back the success of rival Anthropic.

Asian stocks have end of the day mixed. European stocks are higher in midday trading, and U.S. stock futures are steady ahead of the open.

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