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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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
An unbranded circuit board photographed against white, illustrating a report on Etched's inference hardware and its funding round.
Business

Etched Doubled to US$21 Billion After Its First Customer Led the Round

Jane Street tested the hardware, installed the first shipped system in its own data centre, then led the raise. The architecture splits inference into its prefill and decode phases, which is the same diagnosis four other companies reached this fortnight.

19 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Fibre-optic and network cables with connectors on a white surface, illustrating a report on Marvell's interconnect business.
Business

Marvell's Year Was Won by the Chips That Move Data, Not the Ones That Compute

A 181 per cent return ahead of Broadcom and Nvidia, driven by optical interconnect rather than the custom silicon the company is usually discussed through. The ASIC thesis is not wrong, it is a fiscal-2028 event.

18 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Illuminated blue fibre-optic strands in darkness, illustrating a report on the GitHub outage of 17 August 2026.
Business

GitHub Was Degraded for Three Hours and Build Pipelines Went With It

Archive downloads failed at around 50 per cent during the three-hour incident, which is what broke continuous integration in organisations that did not think they depended on GitHub being up. Ours was one of them, and the logs are in the piece.

18 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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