ABE NEWS | August 28, 2026 Norway has lost its king. King Harald V, the country’s monarch for more than 35 years and one of Europe’s longest-serving heads of state, died Friday at the age of 89, bringing to an end a reign that spanned dramatic changes in Norwegian society and transformed him into…
CANADA — Something interesting is happening inside the Canadian economy. Factories are getting busier. Companies are receiving more orders. And some manufacturers are hiring more workers. Canada’s manufacturing sector expanded in July at its fastest pace in more than four years, according to new industry data. At first glance, that sounds like exactly the…
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…
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…
The Hook When the world becomes uncertain, investors often return to something that has held value for thousands of years. Gold. This week, the precious metal surged to a seven-week high and is on track for its strongest weekly gain since January. But this isn’t just a story about a shiny metal. It’s a…
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…
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 | August 26, 2026 One of the biggest legal battles over children, social media and the power of Big Tech has produced a landmark result. Meta Platforms, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has agreed to pay up to roughly $17.1 billion and make sweeping changes to how its platforms work…
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…
SATURDAY ABE ORIGINALS | September 12, 2026 For much of the past forty years, one idea quietly shaped the way the global economy was built: waste is bad. Factories should not hold more inventory than necessary. Companies should buy components wherever they can be produced most cheaply. Ships should follow the shortest and most…
