AI Weekly Malaysia

Gentari and MBPP have activated a 120kW DC fast charger at Kompleks Pasar Awam dan Penjaja Taman Terubong Jaya in Paya Terubong, Penang. It has two CCS2 nozzles, costs RM1.60/kWh (less with Gentari Go subscription), supports Gentari Go, JomCharge, and ChargEV activation, and imposes a RM0.40/minute idle fee after 15 minutes post-charge.

Chinese space startup LandSpace successfully landed a Zhuque-3 first-stage booster on land, making it the first Chinese company to achieve the feat—previously only SpaceX and Blue Origin had done so. The rocket, which can carry 21,300 kg to a 450km orbit, launched at 7:35 AM, separated stages at 137 seconds, and landed the first stage six minutes later about 250km from the launchpad. LandSpace has designed its engines and first stages for up to 20 flights but has not yet demonstrated actual re-use or turnaround time.

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030825-00/?p=42803 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371006 Points: 353 # Comments: 136

A critical unauthenticated remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-32475, CVSS 9.0) in Elementor Pro's Forms module allows attackers to bypass file extension blocklists and upload arbitrary PHP scripts. The vulnerability affects versions up to 4.2.1 and requires only a published Elementor form with a file upload field enabled, which is a common configuration for job applications and support tickets.

Z.ai CEO Jie Tang argues that parameter count alone is no longer a useful model metric, stating it's only meaningful alongside data volume, compute allocation, and deployment conditions. GLM-5.3's improvements come entirely from RL on long-horizon environments—tasks that simulate days of real engineering work, including diagnosing ML infrastructure bottlenecks and delivering measurable speedups. The entire environment, judging, and verifier process is synthetic end-to-end.

YTL-backed Ryt Bank has surpassed 1.5 million customers in its first year, overtaking GXBank (1.4M in May 2026) as Malaysia's largest digital bank by customer base. Its AI banking assistant Ryt AI, running on ILMU—a homegrown LLM from YTL AI Labs—has been used over 10 million times, handling conversational banking tasks in English, Bahasa Melayu, and Chinese, including receipt/image reading and multi-step requests. Ryt Bank also became the first Malaysian digital bank to offer account activation via ATMs and over-the-counter at physical branches.

IBM revealed modular rectangular cryogenic cabinets—three times the size of a domestic fridge, with 0.53 sqm wiring area and 2.75 cubic meters of vacuum chamber volume—that can be connected via shielded 'cryogenic tunnels' to link multiple quantum processors. The design addresses IBM's scaling limit on single-chip qubit counts and reduces the noisy long connections that plague its current cylindrical coolers.

Zeekr EV owners in Malaysia get free JomCharge Platinum membership (normally RM39.90/month), granting 25% off at over 1,000 JomCharge charge points nationwide. The promo runs until 31 December 2026 and requires owners to register via the JomCharge app and submit an online form with a 1-2 day onboarding process.

Zetrix AI (formerly MyEG) and Autzen Marketing launched RideNow, a closed-bidding motorcycle marketplace in Malaysia that restricts transactions to verified dealers only, aiming to curb e-commerce scams that cost Malaysians over RM430 million in early 2026. Sellers submit bike details online, get a free on-site inspection, set a minimum price, and verified dealers bid twice daily on weekdays; payment is processed within 1 working day and vehicle ownership transfer is handled on-site by MYEG TwoCar.

Apple's macOS 26.7 release candidate accidentally leaked model identifiers for nearly 40 unreleased devices, including a foldable iPhone Ultra (V68), OLED touchscreen MacBook Pros (K114c/K114s/K116c/K116s), camera-equipped AirPods with infrared cameras for Visual Intelligence (B790, targeting 2027), a smart home hub running homeOS codenamed Pebble (J490/J491), and a Luxo Jr-inspired tabletop robot (J595).

Malaysian P2P financing platform microLEAP signed an MoU with Provident Banc Berhad to explore alternative financing and financial education initiatives for Malaysian SMEs, covering both Shariah-compliant and conventional P2P structures. The announcement was made at an industry event on Islamic financing and financial stress, but no specific products, timelines, or funding amounts were disclosed.

Microsoft will stop selling the license-included Azure VMware Solution (AVS) on October 31, 2026, and existing AVS environments will stop working after August 30, 2027. Customers must acquire Broadcom's Cloud Foundation (VCF) licenses directly and move to a BYOL arrangement, as Broadcom now requires all hyperscale partners to stop selling VMware licenses. This closes one of the last ways to run VMware without buying the full VCF bundle.

Article URL: https://www.computerenhance.com/p/turns-are-better-than-radians Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49369408 Points: 346 # Comments: 211

NASA has decided to abandon its planned rescue mission for the Swift gamma-ray observatory satellite. The article text was not properly captured—only cookie consent boilerplate was extracted, so substantive details about why the mission was called off, timeline, or cost are unavailable from the provided text.

https://archive.is/JfB5V Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368886 Points: 439 # Comments: 264

Anthropic announced general availability of computer use, the Skills API, and the Files API on the Claude Platform. Computer use now supports multiple actions per turn (reducing calls and latency) and adds a browser use tool that reads page structure rather than relying on pixel positions alone; Skills API lets teams upload and version instruction/script bundles that run in Claude's sandbox; Files API provides persistent document storage referenced by ID.

Anthropic announced Claude Academy, an educational platform for learning to use AI effectively, and described how it mirrors their internal employee onboarding. Their internal approach includes a '4D AI Fluency Framework' taught on day one, continuous 'ever-boarding' programs, and tools like Claude Tag, with emphasis on teaching employees what mistakes AI tends to make so they can review AI output better.

monday.com rearchitected its entire platform around Claude after hitting what VP of Product Orly Stern Izhaki called an 'AI dust' ceiling—sprinkling AI automations onto existing workflows without changing the product's core value proposition. After an internal 'AI month' in May 2025 generated excitement but no sustained usage patterns, the company rebuilt from the ground up, reporting 5 million agent interactions within two months of launch across its 250,000-customer base.

OpenAI published a customer case study claiming Stampli, a procure-to-pay platform, used ChatGPT Work and Codex to cut launch production time by 68% (3.16x faster) and compress a six-week prototype-to-launch cycle into days. Stampli also reportedly creates hundreds of content pieces per week using ChatGPT Work.

Anthropic published a guide distilling five operating principles from interviews with 12+ startups using Claude Code: everyone ships, automate the tedium, trust but verify, build for rebuilding, and prototype-dogfood-productionize. Reported outcomes include ClickHouse shipping 30% more features, Omni achieving 2-3x engineering productivity, Clay automating 100% of bug triage, and Artemis Security running 6,000+ PRs per week.

AMD claims its AI GPU systems are already 4x more efficient than 2024 levels, toward a goal of 20x rack efficiency by end of decade. Its new Helios rack-scale platform packs 72 MI455X GPUs, each delivering 7.7x–15.4x higher FP performance than the MI300X but drawing 3x the power, with gains coming mainly from rack-scale workload scaling rather than per-chip efficiency. Nvidia already made a similar rack-scale leap with GB200 NVL72 in late 2024.

Stripe confirmed acquiring OpenRouter for $7.5 billion, up from OpenRouter's $1.3 billion valuation just three months prior. The founders will receive $1.5 billion and investors $6 billion. Databricks also bid on the startup, which routes prompts between different AI models; Stripe's founders framed the deal around AI-driven economic growth, noting 88% of the Forbes AI 50 already use Stripe.

Simon Willison tested smolvm 1.8.3 as a sandbox for running untrusted Python and JavaScript data transformations using hardware-isolated VMs rather than shared-kernel containers. Features including no-network execution, CPU/RAM limits, guest-enforced timeouts, storage quotas, read-only input mounts, writable output mounts, and --unprivileged mode all worked as intended, with cold starts at 0.6–1.5 seconds and warm executions around 50 ms. Claude Fable 5, tasked with running the tests inside Claude Code for web, hit a nested-virtualization wall (no /dev/kvm) and creatively pivoted to GitHub Actions runners which expose /dev/kvm.

Jeremy Morrell argues that LLMs create a new opportunity for 'Extensible Software' on the web: LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions while modern sandbox primitives lower deployment cost and provide security boundaries. The proposed architecture is a solid, accountable core that users can safely extend in many directions by having LLMs fill in missing pieces.

Simon Willison argues that lines of code can be a meaningful productivity metric with AI coding agents, since agents can push output from ~50-200 lines/day to ~1000 lines of debugged, tested code — but only with senior-level skill. The new bottleneck is cognitive capacity, not code generation speed, and fast agent-generated features risk destroying conceptual integrity, producing software that grows in random directions like the Winchester Mystery House.