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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Business

Atoms Denies Building Robotaxis. It Confirms Uber May Use Its Technology for Ridesharing.

The FT says Kalanick's company is building robotaxi tech; Atoms calls itself an industrial software business. Both can be true, and the denial addresses the label rather than the activity.

8 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

NHTSA Is Auditing Tesla's Cybercab Certification. Zoox Took Four Years and an Exemption.

Audit query AQ26002 opened the day the Cybercab began carrying passengers. It does not investigate a crash — it asks Tesla to justify certifying a car with no steering wheel against standards written for one.

5 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Business

Tesla's Cybercab Is Carrying Passengers in Austin, With 45 Vehicles Authorised

Tesla is carrying paying passengers in a two-seater with no steering wheel. The launch was a closed event with no livestream, confirmed afterwards by a website update.

4 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Business

Equinix's Inference Exchange Arrives in Q1 2027, With No Price Attached

Inference Exchange pairs Nvidia reference architectures with Together AI across Equinix data centres. No price, no launch markets and no committed capacity have been published.

4 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

The G20's AI Accord Is Non-Binding, and Two of Its Three Asks Take a Side

All twenty endorsed the Carolina Principles at Chapel Hill. Sector-specific rules, no new regulatory bodies, closer work with industry. Leaders adopt in December.

4 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

Google's 890 Million Euro Fine Is Small. The Daily Penalty After 21 September Is Not.

The EU fine is about two days of Alphabet's revenue. What starts on the 22nd is a periodic payment of up to 5 per cent of average daily worldwide turnover.

3 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

Nobody Could Be Found to Buy AdX, So Google Keeps It

Brinkema rejected the AdX divestiture and ordered behavioural remedies. One stated reason was that no credible buyer for AdX was ever identified.

3 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Business

The UK Cyber Bill Leaves Out AI Vendors, and Also the Government

The bill can order a power station to stop using a particular AI model, while imposing no duty on whoever built it. Peers challenged that and the minister answered on hostile actors.

3 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Business

Uber Is Cutting Management Layers, and 3,300 Roles With Them

Uber is cutting 3,300 roles, 20 per cent of manager positions and every job more than seven layers from the chief executive. That last instruction implies at least eight layers existed.

2 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

JioHotstar Went Global Without the Cricket That Built It

JioHotstar replaced Hotstar in three markets on 2 September. The Indian business is a volume play at ₹79 a month; the international one is a premium subscription without sport.

2 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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