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

Chinese Hyperscaler Spending Is Doubling and Falling Further Behind

Chinese hyperscaler capex is more than doubling, which is the headline. Moody's says the absolute capacity gap widens anyway, because six times a bigger number grows faster in dollars than a doubling of a smaller one.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
A yellow mining haul truck at a quarry, reflected in a puddle of water
Business

Caterpillar's Fastest-Growing AI Business Is Selling Generators to Data Centres

Two decades of autonomous mining is the story being told. A 72 per cent jump in generator sales is the number in the accounts, and it is about selling power to the build-out, not deploying AI.

31 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Business

Alibaba Cloud Opened in Brazil, and the Real Question Is Whose Law Reaches It

The launch pitch is local infrastructure for data governance. Residency answers where the servers are, and not which government can compel the provider that runs them.

30 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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