The Intelligence Layer for Asian Founders. AI Essay
China’s one-person companies run on software, and three in four of their founders have no technical background. CÈ names the job behind the number: the AI-desk founder keeps three tasks and hands the desk to machines.
Health Essay
Two kinds of AI reliance were measured separately in 1,032 Chinese undergraduates. Handing the model the labour barely moved the needle; handing it the judgement moved it three and a half times as far.
AI Essay
China’s August customs data show Southeast Asia buying 30.2 percent more Chinese chips than a year ago, inside a record US$119 billion surplus, and this column bets the relationship survives whatever Washington does to the wall that built it.
AI Essay
The AfD took 39 of the Landtag’s 83 seats on 6 September, and every majority that excludes it runs through the one partner the CDU also refuses.
Operators on the record — how a real SEA business actually makes its money, from the CÈ interview desk.
On the systems being built, and the sovereignty questions they are quietly asking of the region.
Essay
China’s one-person companies run on software, and three in four of their founders have no technical background. CÈ names the job behind the number: the AI-desk founder keeps three tasks and hands the desk to machines.
Essay
China’s August customs data show Southeast Asia buying 30.2 percent more Chinese chips than a year ago, inside a record US$119 billion surplus, and this column bets the relationship survives whatever Washington does to the wall that built it.
Essay
The AfD took 39 of the Landtag’s 83 seats on 6 September, and every majority that excludes it runs through the one partner the CDU also refuses.
Long, unhurried profiles of the operators shaping the region's next decade.
Essay
Vietnamese law does not recognise a distribution agreement as its own kind of contract, and it awards nothing automatically when one ends. That makes the clause the wrong place to look for protection.
Essay
The succession gap in Asian family business reads as missing paperwork, and behaves like a founder who never built anyone able to replace him.
Interview
CÈ’s interview tool ran for the first time and questioned the publication’s own founder, who built both the masthead and the interviewer. Five questions, one thesis, and a disclosure stated at the top.
How a real Southeast Asian business actually makes its money — one operator, one model, real numbers.
Reportage
A tenth of the mandate went into market research and consumer surveys in the first month or two. The other nine tenths bought things a player could hold.
Reportage
Every repositioning has a physical floor. At Malaysia’s Souper Tang the number is 2,500 square feet, and finding it cost the group twelve Klang Valley outlets and three years out of the market.
Reportage
Vietnam’s best-known flood-housing programme puts at least half the cost of every home on the household that will live in it, and holds the line when a family cannot pay. The waiting is the design, not the failure.
Modern medicine, longevity, and the limits of optimisation.
Essay
Two kinds of AI reliance were measured separately in 1,032 Chinese undergraduates. Handing the model the labour barely moved the needle; handing it the judgement moved it three and a half times as far.
Essay
A harmonised database of 51 intervention studies grades the epigenetic clocks against each other, and the grading lands awkwardly on the biological age panel you are being sold.
Essay
The end of British sugar rationing handed researchers 64,761 people and a two-year window, and the finding that lasts is what that cohort was still eating at fifty.
An applied philosophy for people who still have to make decisions, treated as intellectual discipline rather than wellness.
Essay
On voluntary discomfort, and the warehouse lease a Ho Chi Minh City founder tested before she agreed to sign it.
Essay
On the inner citadel, and the week Jakarta decided which e-commerce sellers count as local enough for a fifty percent discount.
Essay
On the dichotomy of control, and the six months Singapore fintech spent raising US$499 million while the money went to Jakarta and Shanghai.
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