Saturday ABE Founders: Inside Sirdab — The Entrepreneurs Building the Logistics Infrastructure Behind a Growing Gulf Economy

  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…

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Taiwan Companies Plan Another $20 Billion U.S. Investment — As the AI Chip Boom Reshapes Global Manufacturing

 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…

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Canada Backs €100 Billion Global Defence Bank — And Wants to Become a Financial Hub for the West’s Military Build-Up

  ABE NEWS | August 30, 2026 Canada is positioning itself at the centre of an ambitious attempt to transform how Western countries finance defence, as Prime Minister Mark Carney throws Ottawa’s weight behind a proposed international bank seeking to mobilize roughly €100 billion — about US$116 billion — for defence, security and military-industrial investment….

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China Is Strengthening Its Banks and Insurers With a $54 Billion Capital Push — Here’s Why Beijing Is Acting Now

 ABE NEWS | September 6, 2026 China is moving to strengthen some of the most important institutions in its financial system through a coordinated $54 billion capital-raising programme, giving major state-owned banks and insurers additional financial firepower as Beijing tries to support an economy facing weaker investment, subdued borrowing demand and pressure on financial-sector profitability….

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U.S. Says Talks With Iran Are Underway — Iran Says They Aren’t

  The United States and Iran are sending very different messages about whether negotiations are happening as tensions between the two countries remain high. U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that discussions with Iran were taking place. Iran, however, publicly denied that it is currently negotiating with the United States. So what’s actually happening? And…

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The Week in Business: Nvidia’s AI Boom, Canada’s Trade Shock, Meta’s $18 Billion Reckoning and Oil’s Wild Ride

  ABE NEWS | THE WEEK IN BUSINESS | August 28, 2026 It was a week when artificial intelligence delivered staggering numbers, Canada discovered its economy was stronger than expected just as another trade shock arrived, one of the world’s biggest social-media companies agreed to one of the most consequential settlements in the industry’s history,…

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The AI Boom Has a New Enemy: Voters — America’s Data-Centre Backlash Is Spreading

  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…

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AI Is Creating a New Problem: Data Centers Need More Power

 Artificial intelligence is growing quickly, but all that AI needs something many people don’t think about: huge amounts of computing power, electricity and cooling. Companies around the world are building and upgrading data centers to handle more AI workloads. Today, Huawei announced four new AI data-center infrastructure solutions in Malaysia focused on power and cooling,…

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Anthropic Is Betting $518 Billion on AI. The Real Question Is Whether the Future Can Pay for It.

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…

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AI Is No Longer Just Writing Code — It’s Transforming Factories

  The Hook When most people think about artificial intelligence, they imagine chatbots, image generators or virtual assistants. But the biggest AI revolution may not happen on your phone. It may happen inside factories. Around the world, manufacturers are using AI to redesign production lines, improve efficiency and reduce costly downtime. Companies that build the…

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