ABE NEWS | September 6, 2026 Europe’s effort to rebuild its independent access to space reached an important milestone this weekend after German startup Isar Aerospace successfully sent its Spectrum rocket into orbit from northern Norway, becoming the first commercial European company to place satellites into orbit with its own launch vehicle. The rocket…
SATURDAY ABE FOUNDERS | September 5, 2026 Warehouses are rarely glamorous. Neither are trucks. Inventory management doesn’t dominate dinner-table conversations. And few children grow up telling their parents they dream of optimizing warehouse capacity. But Naif Alzahri and Abdulrahman Alnamlah saw something different. They saw infrastructure. More specifically, they saw businesses across Saudi Arabia…
SATURDAY ABE ORIGINALS | September 5, 2026 Somewhere in Africa today, a business owner is waiting for electricity. A farmer is trying to get produce to a city before it spoils. A shopkeeper cannot reliably restock inventory. A truck is travelling hundreds of kilometres with empty space. A family is trying to find an…
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…
ABE NEWS | September 4, 2026 The artificial-intelligence race has produced enormous chip orders, gigantic data centres and technology companies spending hundreds of billions of dollars on computing infrastructure. Now it is producing something else: enormous amounts of debt. ByteDance, the Chinese technology giant behind TikTok and Douyin, has secured a staggering $29.6 billion…
ABE NEWS | September 3, 2026 America has spent the past several years racing to build the physical infrastructure required for artificial intelligence. Now communities are beginning to ask a different question: Who is paying for it? Across the United States, enormous AI data centres are colliding with growing concerns over electricity prices, water…
ABE NEWS | September 3, 2026 Nvidia has spent years building one of the most powerful positions in artificial intelligence. Its GPUs train AI models. Its chips power data centres. Its networking technology connects enormous computing systems. Its software helps developers make those machines useful. Now Nvidia is making a move into another crucial layer…
ABE NEWS | September 2, 2026 Taiwanese technology companies are preparing another $20 billion wave of investment into the United States, as exploding demand for artificial intelligence pushes one of the world’s most important technology supply chains deeper into American territory. Taiwan Economy Minister Kung Ming-hsin announced the new investment estimate Wednesday at the SEMICON…
