ABE ORIGINAL | SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2026 There is something deeply strange happening in Hollywood. Writers are teaching artificial intelligence how to write screenplays. Directors are helping machines understand filmmaking decisions. Producers are showing AI how to plan shoots, organize productions and solve problems that professionals normally spend years learning to handle. And some…
ABE FOUNDERS | SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2026 The humanoid-robot industry has become very good at producing moments that look like science fiction. Robots can dance. They can box. They can work through obstacle courses. And, as we reported earlier today, one Chinese humanoid has now completed a 100-metre test run in 9.32 seconds. But…
ABE NEWS | SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2026 For more than 16 years, one number has represented the outer edge of human sprinting: 9.58 seconds. That is how long it took Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt to run 100 metres at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin, establishing a men’s world record that no human athlete…
ABE NEWS | THE WEEK IN BUSINESS | FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2026 Some weeks in business are dominated by one enormous event. This wasn’t one of them. Instead, the global economy spent the week sending signals from almost every direction. The United States crossed $40 trillion in national debt. Long-term government borrowing costs reached…
ABE NEWS | THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2026 For years, scientists have talked about a future where cancer treatment could be designed specifically for one person’s tumor. That future may have just moved significantly closer. Moderna and Merck announced that their experimental personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, intismeran, succeeded in a large Phase 3 trial involving…
ABE NEWS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2026 A robot can run, dance, box and perform martial arts. That’s impressive. But on Wednesday, China’s best-known humanoid robot maker did something completely different: It sent investors into a frenzy. Unitree Robotics made its stock-market debut on Shanghai’s STAR Market, with shares priced at 150.80 yuan. They…
ABE NEWS | TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2026 Oil is above $90. Government borrowing costs are surging. Technology stocks are falling. And one U.S. interest rate has reached a level investors haven’t seen since 2007. At first, those sound like four different stories. They’re not. Tuesday’s market selloff is showing exactly how quickly trouble in one part…
Artificial intelligence has spent the last few years changing one thing after another. First, it changed technology. Then it changed Wall Street. Then companies started spending hundreds of billions of dollars building the infrastructure needed to power it. Now AI is beginning to enter a place that could affect almost everyone: the Federal Reserve’s…
Wall Street has spent much of 2026 worrying about three things: inflation. interest rates. and whether the AI boom has gone too far. On Thursday, investors got reasons to worry a little less. The S&P 500 climbed to a new intraday record, technology stocks moved higher, oil prices fell and fresh U.S. inflation data…
For years, betting companies became one of the most familiar sights in English football. Their names appeared across the front of Premier League shirts, placing gambling brands in front of millions of supporters watching matches around the world. But that era is changing. Beginning with the 2026/27 Premier League season, clubs have collectively stopped…
