The global shipping crisis has entered a dangerous new phase in the Persian Gulf—and unlike the Red Sea, there is no geographic workaround for commercial vessels to escape the conflict zone. Meanwhile, Meta's new autonomous AI agent is executing real-world financial transactions, threatening to completely break existing e-commerce authentication and fraud liability models. • US and Canada launch dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs, triggering an operational fire drill for North American supply chains and threatening the USMCA framework. • Maritime attacks spread to the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, pushing Brent crude past $101.60 and forcing immediate war-risk freight surcharges. • The NSA, FBI, and CISA warn that Chinese AI firms are "distilling" US model weights, elevating intellectual property theft to a national security threat. • Meta laun ...