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 | 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 | THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2026 Africa’s biggest oil refinery is preparing for another enormous milestone. Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery has secured a $1 billion underwriting program ahead of a planned stock-market listing that could become the largest initial public offering in African history. The refinery, majority-owned by Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, has already…
