BUSINESS | ABE | OCTOBER 6, 2026 Uber spent years building an app people opened when they needed a ride. Then it trained millions of those same people to open it when they wanted dinner. Now it wants businesses to do the same thing. Uber has agreed to acquire U.S. workplace-food platform ezCater for $2.3…
ABE NEWS | OCTOBER 1, 2026 For most people, the artificial-intelligence boom exists on a screen. It is ChatGPT answering a question. Claude writing code. An image appearing from a prompt. A company announcing another AI assistant. But behind those digital products, something much more physical is happening. Factories are getting busier. Manufacturers across parts…
ABE NEWS | OCTOBER 1, 2026 For much of the past decade, the global economy became accustomed to one powerful idea: money could be borrowed cheaply. Governments borrowed to finance spending. Companies borrowed to expand. Homebuyers benefited from relatively inexpensive mortgages. Investors poured money into stocks, technology companies and other assets because interest rates offered…
Anthropic Is Betting $518 Billion on AI. Now the AI Boom Has to Prove Itself. ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 Artificial intelligence has spent the last several years convincing the world that it could become one of the defining technologies of the century. Now the industry is facing a different question. How much money…
ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 28, 2026 For decades, Formula 1’s basic proposition was remarkably simple. Twenty drivers. The world’s fastest racing cars. And roughly 300 kilometres to determine who crossed the finish line first. But Formula 1 has spent the past several years changing almost everything around that race. Sprint events have added shorter contests…
ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 28, 2026 For a few minutes, everything looks perfect. Models walk beneath carefully engineered lights. Celebrities occupy the front row. Photographers crowd around entrances. Images race across Instagram, TikTok and fashion magazines before the final model has even left the runway. Then the lights go down. And for some of the…
ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 28, 2026 For generations, Saudi Arabia’s economic power has rested on something buried beneath its desert: oil. Petroleum transformed the kingdom into one of the world’s wealthiest countries, financed enormous infrastructure projects and gave Saudi Arabia influence stretching far beyond the Middle East. Now the kingdom wants to prove it can…
ABE ORIGINALS | SEPTEMBER 26, 2026 The United States and China increasingly speak about artificial intelligence as if the future must be divided in two. Two semiconductor supply chains. Two technology ecosystems. Two sets of rules. Two competing ambitions to control the infrastructure behind the most important technological shift of this generation. Washington has restricted…
ABE FOUNDERS | SEPTEMBER 26, 2026 Africa’s technology story is often told through the same handful of cities. Lagos. Nairobi. Cairo. Cape Town. They have become the continent’s most visible startup hubs, attracting founders, venture capital firms and international attention. But some of Africa’s most interesting companies are being built outside those established centres —…
ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 26, 2026 For more than a decade, Manchester City has represented one of football’s most extraordinary transformations. A club purchased by Abu Dhabi investors in 2008 became a global sporting powerhouse, assembling some of the world’s best players, hiring elite managers, building a multinational football network and collecting trophies at a…
