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…
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 18, 2026 This was the week when several assumptions underpinning the global economy became harder to defend. Investors who spent years waiting for cheaper money watched the Federal Reserve raise interest rates for the first time in more than three years. Japan pushed borrowing costs to their highest level…
ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 For most people, artificial intelligence still exists behind a screen. A user types a question, a model produces an answer, and the interaction ends in the digital world. Anthropic is beginning to push beyond that boundary. The maker of Claude has established a wet laboratory in the San Francisco…
ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 When Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington next week, some of the most consequential people accompanying him may not be diplomats. Washington and Beijing are finalizing plans for a potential delegation of major Chinese business leaders to join Xi during his state visit, according to Reuters. Companies under…
ABE NEWS | September 15, 2026 Eleven years ago, Intel spent approximately $16.7 billion buying Altera in one of the biggest semiconductor acquisitions of its era. The deal was supposed to give Intel a stronger position in programmable chips and bring another major technology business inside a company that was still one of the…
ABE NEWS | September 14, 2026 In 2019, Tabby’s proposition was remarkably simple. A customer wanted to buy something online but didn’t necessarily want to pay the entire amount immediately. Tabby placed itself at checkout and allowed that purchase to be divided into instalments. No bank branch. No traditional credit-card application. No complicated financial…
ABE NEWS | September 14, 2026 For decades, Canada has enjoyed one of the most valuable economic relationships any country could ask for. Immediately to its south sits the world’s largest economy. Canadian oil, cars, lumber, minerals, machinery, electricity and countless other products could cross one of the world’s longest borders into an enormous American…
SATURDAY ABE FOUNDERS | September 12, 2026 Iman Abuzeid had already completed the kind of education that usually determines the rest of a person’s career. She had trained as a doctor in London. Medicine ran through her family. Becoming a physician offered prestige, stability and a clear professional path. After years of medical school, the…
