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A South Korean city at night with apartment towers and an elevated expressway, illustrating a report on record shareholder returns from Samsung and SK Hynix.
Finance

Samsung And SK Hynix Are Handing Back More Than They Are Building With

Samsung expects shareholder returns of 90 to 110 trillion won this year, the largest ever by a Korean company. SK Hynix is cancelling 40 trillion won of its own shares. Both are running the same AI memory boom, and both have decided the cash outruns the capex.

22 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Hands pressing a rolled garment down into a suitcase that is already full to the brim
ASEAN Tech

Why Your Name Does Not Fit in the Box

A form field capped at forty characters gives an English speaker forty and a Khmer speaker twenty-one, because the browser counts storage units and you count letters. We measured the gap across ASEAN languages, then audited our own 106 field limits.

21 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
A printed bar chart in shades of blue lying on a desk, illustrating a report on the concentration of Southeast Asian AI startup funding.
Finance

Southeast Asia's Record AI Year Funded Fewer Companies Than 2024

US$4.1bn sounds like a boom until you count the deals: 23 rounds this year against 41 last year and 35 before that. One Series D is about 68 per cent of the money, and it is the second regional dataset this year with that exact shape.

20 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
The curved concrete wall of a dam holding back a green reservoir, illustrating a report on water infrastructure funding for a data centre expansion.
Sustainability

Amazon Put Another US$6bn Into Louisiana For 210 Jobs, And Paid For The Water

The commitment rises from US$12bn to US$18bn with a third Shreveport campus. Divide the increment by the direct jobs and you get about US$28.6m each — which is not a scandal, it is what this asset class is.

19 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
An electricity transmission pylon photographed from directly below against a blue and gold sky, illustrating a report on United States grid interconnection rules.
Sustainability

FERC Gave All Six US Grid Operators 60 Days On Data-Centre Connection Rules, And The Clock Just Ran Out

Show-cause orders under Federal Power Act section 206 covering territories serving 200 million people. Every technical question in them resolves into who pays for network reinforcement, and the formula that emerges will be quoted far outside the United States.

19 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Two hourglasses on a pale surface, illustrating a report on why memory manufacturers pay for a long view of demand.
Business

Micron Raised a US$250 Million Fund to See Its Own Demand Three Years Out

A memory manufacturer investing across the AI stack is the smallest version of a pattern that now includes Nvidia's US$500 billion financing platforms and its equity stakes in customers. For a company whose fabs produce three years after the decision, demand visibility is the point.

18 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Four colleagues talking across a boardroom table with laptops, illustrating a report on IBM's new OpenAI consulting practice.
Business

IBM Will Sell OpenAI's Models Through Its Consultants

A company with its own model family is putting a rival's frontier models into the platform its consultants use with clients, and training tens of thousands of them to deploy it. The scarce input in enterprise AI is not the model.

17 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Glass office towers photographed from below against fog, illustrating a report on Nvidia's AI compute financing platforms.
Finance

Nvidia Arranges US$500 Billion of Third-Party Financing for Its Own Hardware

Six of the largest asset managers and investment banks will raise capital for AI infrastructure built on Nvidia hardware. None of it sits on Nvidia's balance sheet, and the agreements are memoranda rather than facilities.

17 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
A printed financial statement on a desk, illustrating a report on hyperscaler lease obligations that sit in the notes rather than the balance sheet.
Finance

Big Tech Has Signed US$725 Billion of Leases That Are Not on the Balance Sheet

Five hyperscalers have disclosed about US$1.2 trillion of lease obligations, of which US$725 billion has not yet commenced and therefore sits in the notes rather than the balance sheet. Goldman expects roughly 35 per cent of 2027 AI capex to be debt-funded.

16 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A modern glass office building, illustrating a report on reported private equity takeover talks for the software company Workday.
Finance

Workday Jumped a Fifth on a Report, Which Says Something About Its Price

Reuters reported Silver Lake has been in talks for months to take Workday private. The shares rose 19.9 per cent and were halted for volatility, adding US$8.6 billion. No deal, no price, no comment from either party.

16 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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