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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DRAM packages on a memory module, the product category at the centre of this dispute
Business

China's Top Memory Chipmaker Is Suing the Pentagon Over a Procurement List

The 1260H list is routinely called a blacklist. It imposes no export controls and stops nobody selling to CXMT; what it does, since June, is bar the Defense Department from contracting with anyone on it.

30 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A developer working in a code editor, the surface whose model access is being withdrawn
Business

OpenAI Will Cut Cursor Off in November Because SpaceX Bought It

The stated reason is distrust; the mechanism is a change-of-control clause that opened a cancellation window. Cursor says OpenAI models are about 5 per cent of its traffic, and Anthropic has already offered to fill the gap.

30 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A television in a living room with a remote, the subscription service whose price has now risen four years running
Business

Apple TV Now Costs $14.99 a Month, Its Fourth Rise in Four Years

Reported as a two-dollar rise, it is 50 per cent in twelve months. The annual plan went up faster than the monthly one, so the discount for paying yearly quietly narrowed. All of these are US prices.

30 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
A single-mode fibre patch cable with duplex connectors, the cabling that optical transceivers plug into
Business

The FCC's Chinese Transceiver Ban Is a Draft, Not a Rule

Officials hope to publish later this year and a technical workshop is still ahead, so the measure could be modified or shelved. Two Chinese firms hold more than 60 per cent of the 800G-plus optics the AI buildout depends on.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
The illuminated logo above an Apple Store entrance, ahead of the company's first keynote under a new chief executive
Business

Apple's First Keynote Under New CEO John Ternus Is on 9 September

John Ternus becomes chief executive on 1 September, eight days before the event, with Tim Cook moving to executive chairman rather than leaving. Apple has announced a date, a time and a tagline; everything else being reported is expectation, including the folding iPhone.

29 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
A row of electrical switchgear cabinets, the kind of infrastructure that is financed with debt rather than venture equity
Business

a16z Raised $1.1bn for AI Hardware, Which Is Not the Buildout

The Machine Age Fund marks a real reallocation by a firm built on software returns. It also amounts to about one part in a thousand of this year's data centre capital expenditure.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A gavel in front of a United States flag, representing the federal ruling on the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation
Business

A Judge Blocked the Pentagon's Anthropic Designation, and It Still Stands

Judge Rita Lin found unlawful retaliation, arbitrary decision-making and denial of due process. The order is a preliminary injunction, separate litigation continues, and the label has not been vacated.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A phone showing candlestick price charts held in front of a monitor displaying more of the same.
Business

Perplexity's Valuation Rose by Half and Its Multiple Nearly Halved

Nvidia is reportedly in talks at more than $30bn, up from about $20bn a year ago. Annualised revenue went from under $250m in January to over $750m, so the price went up and the multiple came down.

27 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
The Shanghai waterfront at sunset, lamp posts along the promenade with the Pudong skyline behind.
Business

DeepSeek Is Raising $8bn Two Months After Its First Outside Money

Close to $8bn at around 500bn yuan, up about 11 per cent from June, with a Shanghai listing targeted for 2027. A battery maker is in the round, and the valuation gap with Anthropic is not about capability.

27 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A close-up of rack-mounted server hardware, with drive bays and status markings in shadow.
Business

OpenAI's Jalapeño Beat Blackwell on Work Per Watt, Which Is the Expected Result

A chip that only serves inference outperformed one that also trains, measured on a public third-party benchmark. The comparison nobody has published is against Nvidia's own inference silicon.

27 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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