Eva Chin writes for RECATOOLS on business and commerce in Southeast Asia: the commercial decisions small businesses actually face, and the markets and regulation around them. She also covers Chinese naming and cultural practice, education and qualifications across the region, and the arithmetic of a tropical home. Coverage of cultural practice is educational — it explains what a tradition holds and where it came from, and does not make predictive claims.

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Close-up of a printed circuit board showing surface-mounted components and their designators, illustrating a report on Nvidia licensing Poolside's model-building system.
Business

Nvidia Paid $7bn For Poolside's Technology And Staff Without Buying Poolside

A US$6bn non-exclusive licence to the model factory, 109 employees transferring, and US$1bn of equity at a US$12bn valuation. Poolside stays independent, its founders stay in place, and no merger filing attaches to any of it.

22 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Printed financial charts examined through a magnifying glass, a generic illustration for a report on the difference between an annualised run rate and revenue recognised in a period.
Business

Anthropic's $65 Billion Is a Run Rate. The Prospectus Will Have to Say Something Else.

Investors were told the annualised run rate reached US$65bn at the end of July, up from US$47bn in May and about US$9bn at the end of last year. Quarterly revenue recognised in the same period was US$11.5bn. Both numbers can be true, and only one of them belongs in a filing.

22 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
Banknotes of several different currencies overlapping in a loose pile, including a fifty-euro note and a US dollar bill
Business

What a Year of Currency Movement Does to an Invoice

A USD 10,000 invoice raised in January and paid in August was worth 10.8 million more rupiah, and 141 fewer Singapore dollars. Five ASEAN currencies over 162 business days, and why the annual figure is the less useful one.

21 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
An orange industrial robot arm holding a metal fixture in an engineering laboratory, illustrating a report on funding for robot training simulation.
Business

A Ten-Week-Old Robotics Startup Just Raised Over US$90 Million

Veeda AI, founded by Nvidia's former VP of AI research, is building world models so robots can learn in simulation. Robot training data is the most expensive data in machine learning, and that is the problem being funded.

21 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A white quadcopter drone hovering against a pale blue sky, illustrating a report on the expansion of a parcel drone delivery network.
Business

Amazon Is Taking Drone Delivery To Nearly 500 US Towns This Year

A sixfold expansion from 11 sites, with the MK30 limited to five-pound packages. That limit turns out to cover most of what people order, and what unlocked the rollout was regulatory permission rather than better aircraft.

21 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A small white humanoid robot standing with arms raised against a dark background, illustrating a report on the first humanoid robot maker to list in mainland China.
Business

Unitree Jumped 460% On Debut, And 8,000x Oversubscription Says Why

The first humanoid robot maker listed in mainland China raised US$904m. Both headline numbers measure constrained investment options rather than conviction. The figure worth keeping is 5,500 units shipped.

20 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Container cranes and stacked shipping containers at a port under a pink sunset sky, illustrating a report on restricted AI accelerator shipments reaching China.
Business

Nvidia H200s Are Reaching China Again, And Beijing Was The Blocker

ByteDance and Tencent have each taken around 10,000 of the accelerators. Washington permitted the chip because it is old; Beijing discouraged buying it. Roughly half a million units have been sitting in inventory.

20 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A close-up of a bare red printed circuit board showing component outlines and designators, illustrating a report on advanced foundry price increases.
Business

Samsung Raised Foundry Prices Up To 15% While Losing Market Share

A supplier losing customers normally cuts prices. This one raised them, which means the lines are full — and the smallest increase, almost 10 per cent on 8nm, is the one that reaches Southeast Asian manufacturing.

20 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A dark circuit board photographed close up, showing memory chips and surface-mounted components, illustrating a report on a large AI infrastructure funding round.
Business

River AI Raised US$1.1bn At Two Months Old, And Both GPU Vendors Are In It

An API in preview, no revenue to speak of, and an estimated US$5bn post-money. The detail worth reading is that Nvidia and AMD Ventures made the same bet in the same round — and that Temasek is on the list.

19 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A line of wind turbines on a dry coastal plain with cargo ships on the horizon, illustrating a report on a gigawatt-scale data centre campus in Brazil.
Business

ByteDance Is Building A Gigawatt In Brazil, And The Power Contract Is The Part Southeast Asia Cannot Copy

Construction has begun at Pecém in Ceará: 20 halls, 200 MW initial IT capacity, expansion toward 1 GW, backed by a 20-year US$2 billion wind supply agreement. Long-term clean power contracting has stopped being a sustainability addendum and become the siting decision.

19 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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