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

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
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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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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
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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
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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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Business

Infineon Bought the Part of the AI Server That Nobody Photographs

C2i makes multiphase controllers — the components that hold an accelerator's voltage steady while it swings hundreds of amps in microseconds. Get that wrong and the chip throttles itself.

26 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Business

Nvidia's $105bn for OpenAI's Ohio Campus Is a Guarantee, Not a Cheque

The cash commitment is $1.5bn. The $105bn is a residual-value guarantee on leased infrastructure — a promise about what the assets will be worth, made by the company whose roadmap decides that.

26 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Business

Fifty of the Seventy-Four Smuggled AI Servers Went Through Indonesia

Taiwan indicted nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro staff, over B300 servers diverted to China. The charges are breach of trust and forgery — offences against an employer, not against the export regime.

26 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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