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

Why CSV Libraries Do Not Stop Formula Injection

The same six values written by Python, by PHP, and by joining strings with commas. The libraries fix the commas and the newlines. All three still hand the spreadsheet a live formula, and quoting the value changes nothing.

25 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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Business

What a Spreadsheet Does to Your CSV

Twenty-six values through a correct CSV file, into a spreadsheet, and back. Eight came out visibly different, three more changed in a way a file comparison cannot see, and the one setting that preserves all twenty-six belongs to whoever opens the file.

25 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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Business

Anthropic's IPO Filing Will Reportedly Name AI Opposition as a Risk Factor

The mechanism is short. A planning objection delays a grid connection, a late connection constrains compute, and constrained compute is a revenue problem — which is why it belongs in a filing rather than a press release.

24 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Business

Google's Fix For Vanishing Publisher Traffic Is A Button Readers Must Click

Preferred Sources is now embeddable on publisher sites, with 600,000 sources selected so far. The mechanism is opt-in, one reader at a time, and it asks the party that lost the distribution to go and win it back.

24 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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 · 8 min read
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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
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