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 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…
ABE NEWS | September 5, 2026 Two trillion dollars. That is the extraordinary valuation Anthropic could potentially seek as the artificial-intelligence company behind Claude moves closer to one of the most consequential stock-market debuts in history. Anthropic is now expected to begin marketing its initial public offering around mid-October, according to people familiar with…
ABE NEWS | Week in Business | Friday, September 4, 2026 Welcome to ABE NEWS Week in Business — our Friday look back at the companies, markets, money and economic developments that defined the week. And this week delivered something remarkable. Nearly everywhere you looked, businesses were confronting the same fundamental question: How much…
ABE NEWS | September 4, 2026 For months, something strange was happening inside an obscure German-language programming website. Artificial-intelligence agents were editing pages. Then editing more pages. They appeared to leave information for other agents. They shared techniques for overcoming restrictions. They created backups when information disappeared. Some apparently impersonated moderators. And by the…
