Sarah Chew covers Southeast Asia’s technology, fintech, digital policy, and AI adoption landscape for RECATOOLS. Her work focuses on how regulation, platform shifts, and emerging technologies affect businesses, consumers, and digital markets across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

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Front panels of rack-mounted servers with status indicators lit, illustrating a report on an ASEAN AI data centre partnership.
ASEAN Tech

An AI Data Centre Pact for Four ASEAN Markets, With No Capacity, Cost or Date

A SoftBank subsidiary, a Singapore developer and a Malaysian HPC firm will build AI data centres in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. No investment, capacity, timeline or site was disclosed - and what was disclosed is more informative.

17 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Close-up of a gold-coloured microprocessor, illustrating a report on Nvidia holding large equity stakes in two of its chip customers.
Finance

Nvidia Now Owns Large Stakes in Two of Its Biggest Customers

A disclosure on Friday put 122.8 million SpaceX shares worth about US$21 billion, and roughly US$30 billion of Intel, on Nvidia's books. Together they are close to 80 per cent of its disclosed portfolio, and both companies buy its chips.

16 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Close-up of a printed circuit board, illustrating a report on Intel raising US$20 billion largely against advanced packaging capacity.
Finance

Intel Asked for US$15 Billion. The Orders Came to US$100 Billion.

Intel planned a US$15 billion raise, took orders above US$100 billion, and priced US$20 billion at US$95 a share. Three of the four growth areas it named are manufacturing, which is what the demand is really pricing.

15 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A river boat below the Singapore central business district skyline, illustrating a report on a company that reincorporated in Singapore.
ASEAN Tech

Manus Moved to Singapore. Beijing Blocked the Sale Anyway.

Meta is unwinding a US$2 billion acquisition that Chinese regulators blocked, and users have until 23 August to save their data. Manus had already reincorporated in Singapore. The position Beijing took was that control follows origin, not registration.

15 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
An open legal textbook on a stack of files and newspapers, with a small brass scales-of-justice figure and a seated figure in a suit blurred behind
ASEAN Tech

Vietnam's High-Risk AI List Takes Effect Tomorrow. Compliance Is Not a Defence.

Six sectors, mandatory conformity assessment, local presence for foreign providers - and strict liability for damages even where the provider complied fully. Southeast Asia's first binding AI regime sets a template the region will copy or avoid.

14 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
A row of large outfall pipes with sluice gates set into a concrete wall above still water, photographed in monochrome
Finance

Databricks Raised $5 Billion. Its CEO Says AGI Arrived and Changed Nothing.

A US$190 billion valuation on a US$7 billion run-rate, and a chief executive arguing that AGI has been reached, that it is not superintelligence, and that the world is largely unchanged apart from the inference bill.

14 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
An electrical substation seen through a chain-link fence at dusk, steel gantries and high-voltage insulators backlit by low sun
Finance

Anthropic Paid $9.1 Billion for Electricity, Not Computers

A 20-year, US$9.1 billion lease for 191 megawatts at a Texas bitcoin mining campus. The transaction prices what is actually scarce - and quietly removes a chunk of the Texas grid's emergency brake.

13 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Three high-voltage transmission pylons standing in thick fog, their power lines fading into white, photographed in monochrome
ASEAN Tech

Indonesia Wants a Gigawatt. Singapore's Entire Market Is 1.46.

Zankore targets a gigawatt of AI computing capacity within three years, starting with 200MW at Batang in 2027. Set against Singapore's live capacity and Malaysia's pipeline, the ambition is clear - and so is the constraint.

13 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
The open door of a bank vault, its steel locking bolts and brass mechanism exposed — illustrative of the incumbent settlement institutions now signing up to operate nodes on a new ledger.
Finance

The Card Networks Just Agreed to Run Nodes on a Blockchain

Visa, Mastercard, DTCC, ICE and BlackRock are among eleven founding validators on Circle's Arc. Fees are paid in USDC, which makes the settlement asset a prerequisite for using the network.

11 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Traffic on a tree-lined Jakarta arterial road, office towers and a construction crane rising through haze behind it — illustrative of the Indonesian market CoreWeave is entering.
ASEAN Tech

CoreWeave Is Building 360MW in Indonesia. It Will Own the Compute.

Three facilities, 360 megawatts, online in 2028. The buildings will be in Indonesia and the machines inside them will be CoreWeave's, which is the part the sovereignty language tends to obscure.

11 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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