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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The twin towers of the National Congress in Brasilia against cloud, illustrating a report on Brazil splitting its AI supercomputing between US and Chinese suppliers.
Business

Brazil Bought Its AI Supercomputing From Both Sides

Of 2.3bn reais announced, 1.3bn goes to a Rio de Janeiro project with Huawei and iFlytek and 1bn to a Rio Grande do Norte tender Nvidia is expected to supply. The split is the policy, not an accident of procurement.

23 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
The California State Capitol seen from above in Sacramento, illustrating a report on the state AI Transparency Act taking effect.
Business

California Now Requires The Big AI Providers To Publish A Detector For Their Own Output

SB 942 became operative on 2 August. Generative AI services with more than a million monthly users must ship a free public detection tool, embed provenance data in what they generate, and offer users a visible label.

22 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A close stack of folded newspapers, illustrating a report on the decline in publisher referral traffic from Google search.
Business

Business Insider Lost More Than 85 Per Cent Of Its Google Traffic In A Year

USA Today's national site fell by nearly half, CNN by about a quarter, Politico by 23 per cent. An antitrust filing puts the click-through decline at 58 per cent. Publishers are now weighing whether to block the crawler that used to send them readers.

22 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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
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