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 | August 27, 2026 A catastrophic wall of ice, rock and mud has torn through the Himalayan border region between Nepal and China’s Tibet, killing hundreds of people, destroying communities and leaving more than 1,000 people missing as rescuers race against time to find survivors. The scale of the disaster continued to…
ABE NEWS | TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2026 | NEWS O’CLOCK For days, Washington had been promising what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described as an “economic D-Day” against Iran. Now the first major pieces of that campaign have arrived, and they reveal an American strategy that is both aggressive and surprisingly cautious. The United States…
ABE NEWS | MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2026 China has a problem. The world’s second-largest economy is still growing, but one of the engines that helped power its extraordinary rise is moving in the wrong direction. Investment is falling. During the first seven months of 2026, China’s fixed-asset investment contracted 6.7%. Economic growth slowed from…
ABE NEWS | MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2026 Alibaba just made one of the biggest financial bets of the artificial-intelligence boom. The Chinese technology giant is raising HK$80 billion — approximately US$10.2 billion — by selling 710 million new shares. And Alibaba has already decided where essentially all of that money is going. Artificial intelligence….
ABE NEWS | SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2026 There is a narrow stretch of water between Iran and Oman that most people will never see. It is only about 33 kilometres wide at its narrowest point. Yet what happens there can influence how much families pay to fill their cars, how much airlines spend on…
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 | 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…
