Global operating radar: commerce, agents and spillover risk

1. TikTok Shop will open two-way cross-border selling between the EU and UK, so merchants should model fulfilment and returns first. 2. Mistral raised €3 billion as Europe's sovereign-AI race shifts toward compute and infrastructure. 3. Meta launched Muse, a personal agent that works across apps, moving the solopreneur advantage from prompting toward controlled delegation. 4. Houthi attacks wounded 73 people and hit Saudi oil facilities, raising Red Sea and energy-supply risk together. 5. Canada imposed counter-tariffs on about $20 billion of US goods, forcing North American firms to reprice sourcing and sales. 6. The UN General Assembly opened its 81st session, beginning a new multilateral cycle around restoring trust and managing transformation. 7. Albania's anti-development protests turned violent on day 100, exposing legal and social-license risk for major projects. 8. The IRIS model can reconstruct cellular signalling history from gene activity, opening a new route for stem-cell and organoid research.