Global trade tensions, energy market volatility, and AI-driven corporate shifts dominate the business landscape.

Oil prices continue to climb toward $100 per barrel, driven by fresh attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and surging demand in China, fueling widespread inflation concerns.

The U.S.-Canada trade war has intensified, with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling U.S. tariff retaliation unavoidable and Bombardier shares dropping following threats to restrict the company's access to American markets.

International trade relations are further complicated by the UK, France, and Canada announcing bans on imports from illegal Israeli settlements, prompting retaliatory diplomatic closures by Israel.

The semiconductor industry remains a focal point, with Huawei testing new chip architectures to bypass U.S. sanctions, while Qualcomm receives a stock boost from a new chip collaboration with Amazon.

Artificial intelligence companies face mixed fortunes, as Cognition reaches a $48 billion valuation while Chinese firms Z.ai and MiniMax face warnings that they could remain loss-making until 2030 due to high compute costs.

Meta’s new AI agent, Muse, faces scrutiny over trust and safety, following reports that Meta failed to block hundreds of AI-generated advertisements containing child sexual abuse imagery.

OpenAI is embroiled in controversy as academics accuse the lab of impropriety regarding a major math discovery announcement, amid broader shifts in the company's ecosystem affecting partners like Oracle.

In Pakistan, the government has increased fuel prices by up to Rs5.58 per litre, even as Moody's notes that the country is more resilient to external economic shocks than it was in 2022.

Trump Media has launched a new set of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) marketed as 'MAGA-friendly,' designed to invest in companies aligned with the former president's economic worldview.