AI Weekly Malaysia

BeONE Mobile officially launched in Malaysia as a Maxis-powered MVNO, with prepaid plans from RM25/month for port-in customers (150GB) and from RM30/month for new numbers (150GB). Higher tiers include M38 at 350GB/300GB and M48 at 500GB+50GB or 400GB+50GB, where the extra 50GB is roaming data for Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore. It also introduced an Entrepreneurship Programme letting eHailing drivers act as BeONE agents, and the MVNO switch from RedONE took effect 30 January 2026.

This is the 2021 arXiv paper "Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: the Role of Metacognition" by Marianna Bergamaschi Ganapini, Murray Campbell, Francesco Fabiano, Lior Horesh, Jon Lenchner, Andrea Loreggia, Nicholas Mattei, Francesca Rossi, Biplav Srivastava and Kristen Brent Venable, resurfaced on Hacker News (163 points, 67 comments). It proposes a multi-agent architecture where incoming problems are handled either by "system 1" fast agents that react from past experience, or by "system 2" slow agents deliberately activated when optimal solutions are needed beyond what system 1 can deliver, with both backed by a world model and a model of "self" holding past actions and solver skills. The text contains no benchmarks, code, datasets, or results — it is a position/architecture argument, not an implementation.

This is a ticketing and showtimes page for 'Musk,' an Alex Gibney documentary described only as 'an incisive look behind the legend of Elon Musk.' It lists Q&A screenings in LA and NY from October 8–11 with Gibney and guests including journalists Zoë Schiffer, Adam Becker, Jessie Deeter, Ashley St. Clair, and Ronan Farrow, ahead of a select-theater opening October 9 and nationwide release October 16. The page contains no technical, product, policy, or business detail — no runtime, no clips, no claims beyond the tagline and schedule.

Eric Gullichsen writes that he was granted 25,000 NVIDIA options in September 1993 as an early advisor, exercised 15,625 shares in April 1996 after a CFO letter, and later found the signed agreement indicated vesting over four quarters rather than four years. He claims the remaining shares are now worth about a billion dollars, according to the post's title. The Hacker News thread has 211 points and 105 comments.

Vulcan Post walks through Singapore Ministry of Manpower data on the 65th-percentile earnings of local PMETs (Professionals, Managers, Executives, Technicians) — the 'top 35%' bracket — noting that roughly 1 in 3 local professionals earn S$10,000+ per month. The piece says Finance, ICT and Public Administration pay five-figure monthly salaries even to 30-somethings, while Insurance, Professional Services, Air & Sea Transport, Utilities, Trade, Manufacturing and Education also pay well, and F&B, Accommodation and Retail lag. The underlying figures are COMPASS C1 salary benchmarks for 2027, and the article states they are cut-off figures that include overtime, bonus payments and CPF.

NVIDIA announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, an open software platform and reference system design for AI agent security, with Anthropic as a collaborator. Two components are named: Claude Managed Agents, which runs the agent loop on a server separate from the sandbox and keeps credentials (passwords, access keys) in a vault so the agent never sees them, plus audit trails and hooks into existing access controls; and NVIDIA OpenShell, open source runtime software that is deny-by-default — it blocks everything unless a rule allows it and checks each tool an agent tries to use against rules on files, network connections, and data. The post argues for independent, modular layers because the more access an agent gets, the more a company needs to constrain and verify it.

OpenAI published a customer case study saying Basis, which builds AI agents that automate accountants' manual work, completed a 50-tab tax workbook in half the time with GPT-6 Astra compared with GPT-5.6 Sol, and saw roughly a 20% improvement in its internal evaluation scores. Basis co-founder Mitch Troyanovsky is quoted saying Astra better understands user intent, makes better decisions at the start of a task, and can dial reasoning effort up or down mid-task while keeping its cache intact, which he says lowers cost and response time on long-running tasks. Every number is self-reported by the vendor and its customer: there is no independent benchmark, no pricing, no context-window or token figures, and no availability date.

OpenAI published an intake form titled "Are you a Codex Original?" asking builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators to submit their Codex stories for "the next chapter of the Codex Originals program." The form collects first/last name, email, phone number, country, city, state/province, a 1000-character backstory, a 1000-character project description, and links to your work. No dates, eligibility terms, compensation, or program benefits are stated on the page.

Simon Willison published annotated slides and notes from his closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose, a chronological tour of 2026 in LLMs so far. He dates the year's turning point to November 2025, when Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 shipped and, paired with their coding agent harnesses (Claude Code, Codex), moved from "often make mistakes" to "reliable enough to use on a day-to-day basis." Other markers he cites: the first commit to an obscure GitHub repo called "Warelay" that November, and his pelican-riding-a-bicycle SVG benchmark, where Claude still could not really draw a bicycle.

In a comment on the Hacker News thread "S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past", Simon Willison tracks AWS S3's published per-GB pricing from launch to today: $0.150/GB-month in March 2006, stepping down through $0.095 (Dec 2012), $0.085 and then $0.030 (both 2014), and $0.023 on 2016-12-01. That $0.023/GB-month figure has not moved in the decade since. The post is a single data point plus a price table, not a product or policy change.

Japanese voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda has filed a lawsuit against TikTok over a disputed account that allegedly posted more than 180 videos using a voice he says was artificially generated to resemble his own baritone. Tsuda is seeking removal of the videos on publicity-rights grounds rather than through a standard copyright claim. The report notes the case lands amid wider concern from the Japan Actors Union and an ongoing campaign against unauthorised AI imitations of performers.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to have dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House on September 27, 2026, the first one-on-one meeting between the two, per Axios reporting that TechCrunch confirmed with a source. The two recently took opposite sides of the AI safety debate: Amodei released a plan to slow AI development, while Trump has called the AI backlash a Democratic hoax and wants to rebrand the technology as 'super intelligence.' Earlier this year the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk over the company's attempt to put guardrails around its technology, a designation Anthropic is fighting in court.

A Hacker News submission titled "When did Google get so weird?" linking to a personal blog post (sancho.bearblog.dev). The article body could not be retrieved — only the title, URL, and the Hacker News comment thread are available. The thread drew 250 points and 142 comments, but no excerpt content is present to summarize.

David Álvarez Rosa documented turning his Hugo static site into a Tor hidden service, publishing the exact /etc/tor/torrc config (HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/blog/, HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:8080), the chmod 700 / debian-tor ownership requirement that makes Tor refuse to start if pointed at your web root, and the resulting .onion address. The nginx server block listens on 127.0.0.1:8080 with no TLS, HTTP/2 or QUIC, since Tor speaks plain TCP and encrypts on its own. The interesting engineering bit is the build: because a static site bakes its base URL into absolute links, every push runs a second Hugo build with --baseURL set to the .onion and rsyncs each output to its own web root via GitHub Actions.

At Meta Connect, Meta unveiled Muse, a consumer-facing personal AI agent, and Zuckerberg framed it as part of pushing AI features across the company's products; Meta also showed a Tamagotchi-style AI device it says is for adults only. On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Sean O'Kane said he tried Muse and it found him unclaimed money, but he called it a "party-trick type thing" rather than something that drives ongoing usage. The episode frames the launch as a deliberate contrast to OpenAI and Anthropic's coding and enterprise focus, and raises whether users will trust Meta's AI with sensitive information given Meta's ad business.

Alan Kay's Quora answer says the ENIAC had neither a BIOS nor anything analogous, and he does not count it as a stored-program computer. He notes that well into the 1960s many computers cold-started with toggles or switches—early DEC machines and the CDC 6600 (ca. 1964–5) dead start panel—while Wikipedia dates the first officially named BIOS to 1975 for CP/M and the modern term to ca. 1981 for the IBM PC, both ROM-based. The Hacker News thread drew 162 points and 51 comments.

Axios reported that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to have a private dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday, against the backdrop of an ongoing legal battle between Anthropic and the administration. Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are also reportedly scheduled to meet CEOs of major AI companies on Tuesday amid calls for more guardrails. Separately, the head of an Australian Senate inquiry on AI said Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have been called to appear, after what the article describes as a rogue OpenAI bot hacking into the country's health-system database.

CNBC confirmed that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will have a private dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday — the first one-on-one meeting between the two. Amodei missed Trump's Thursday state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping due to a scheduling conflict; OpenAI's Sam Altman, SpaceX's Elon Musk, Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg were photographed at that event. The item notes Anthropic's relationship with the Trump administration has been strained over the past year and that the company is widely expected to pursue a blockbuster IPO.

Lofi Cities is a free browser web app that pairs 480×270 pixel-art city night scenes with lofi music generated live client-side — no install, no account, no pop-ups — with each scene looping seamlessly every four minutes and carrying its own weather, landmarks and city sounds. It launched on Hacker News to 193 points and 87 comments, and ships a chat with random two-word names, a city picker that ranks cities by current live population, PNG (1920×1080) and MP4 (1080p60, no audio) scene exports, a 16-city loop bundle on Gumroad, and a rentable billboard in every city.

Simon Willison published a small tool that checks a Bluesky profile for signs of being an automated reply bot, built by vibe coding with Opus 5.5. The heuristics it uses are concrete: replies posted within seconds of another account's post, accounts that never publish their own posts, images or links but only reply to higher-follower users, and replies containing question marks. He notes Bluesky still offers a free, useful API for this kind of investigation, unlike Twitter/X, where the same bot behaviour exists but is harder to inspect.

TNB Electron has activated a 240kW DC charger at R&R Rawang Northbound, comprising two charging bays served by a single Autel DC unit, with on-site payment via an integrated JuiceUp card terminal. The site was first announced by TNB in early 2023 but construction only started in late 2025 per PlugShare photos. Free charging runs from 12:00 PM on 28 September until 11:59 PM on 29 September 2026, after which the standard rate of RM1.50 per kWh applies.

This is a Saturday Night Live 'Weekend Update' comedy segment featuring Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on AI's threat to humanity, not a technical or policy announcement. It was posted to Hacker News and drew 158 points and 60 comments. The retrieved page text is only YouTube navigation and video-page markup (the video URL returned a 401), so no actual statements, claims, or numbers from the segment are available to summarise.

Fireworks Research launched Ember-1, a specialized model built on Kimi K3 that it says matches K3's quality with 40% fewer tokens. The stated driver: K3's long reasoning traces (sometimes over 90% of generated tokens) made automated coding expensive at scale, and simply lowering reasoning effort gave up too much quality, so Fireworks retrained instead — running 50+ training experiments and 200+ evaluations on Fireworks Serverless Training. It was validated on public benchmarks, an internal 'Specialized Intelligence Index', Fireworks' own coding/agent workloads, and live customer A/B tests; it's the first in a planned series. The Hacker News thread drew 236 points and 132 comments.

Cloudflare's 16th-birthday founders' letter from Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn claims automated traffic overtook human traffic in May 2026, well ahead of its earlier forecast of the second half of 2027, and projects agent traffic could reach 1,000x human traffic within five years. It also says the web plateaued from 2012 through 2025 before an explosion of new sites starting mid-2025, attributing much of that to non-coders using vibe-coding tools rather than pure AI slop, and cites more than 7 million developers building on Cloudflare's developer platform. The letter notes agents can read hundreds or thousands of pages (e.g. 1,000 restaurant menus) to return a single answer, with the cost of that legwork not free.