AI Weekly Malaysia

Midjourney has acquired the popular astrology app Co-Star, marking a continued expansion beyond its core image and video generation products. The move suggests the AI lab is exploring new consumer-facing applications or acquiring user data and engineering talent.

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]

OpenAI has rolled out its new voice mode to the ChatGPT desktop app, enabling voice-driven interaction with both ChatGPT Work and Codex. The feature can be used to complete tasks and control agents, making the desktop app a more hands-free interface for AI workflows.

Google has introduced a 'selfie video' sign-in and account recovery method for personal Google Accounts, offering an alternative when users forget their password or lose their primary authentication device. The feature is currently limited to personal accounts and not available for Google Workspace or other managed account types.

Facebook is launching a separate app for people who list and sell items on the platform frequently. Dubbed "Seller," the app lets sellers manage their listings, message buyers, and track the performance of items.

Singapore-based Ropedia, an NTU academic spinout building data infrastructure for physical AI and robotics, raised US$22 million in pre-Series A funding, bringing its total to US$30 million. The round drew investors with Southeast Asia deep-tech and AI infrastructure experience, with prior backing from angels connected to Google, a16z, NVIDIA, and Amazon. The company plans to expand global data collection, grow its Singapore and US teams, and build out annotation tooling, quality analytics, and compliance infrastructure for real-world interaction data.

JomCharge and DBKL have activated new AC and DC EV chargers at Cheras Q House as part of their ongoing street-level deployment. A 50% opening promo discount is available for this weekend only.

Samsung Malaysia Electronics and Maybank have enabled Maybank MAE QR Payment within Samsung Wallet, allowing DuitNow QR payments on Samsung devices with Samsung Rewards Points per transaction. The integration was first leaked via Galaxy A27 5G promotional materials before official rollout.

Q&M Dental Group is eyeing 300 clinics with a S$146M expansion plan If you’ve walked around Singapore long enough, you’ve probably seen one: a neighbourhood dental clinic with bright green lettering and a giant tooth logo. Chances are, you never thought much about it. But behind those familiar storefronts sits a SGX-listed company worth over […]

Malaysia's National Technology and Innovation Sandbox (NTIS) has been named a Champion at the WSIS Prizes 2026 in Geneva under the E-science category. The award recognizes NTIS for its contributions to digital innovation and technology sandboxing on a global stage.

Samsung Malaysia has launched the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 and Galaxy Watch 9, moving from Exynos to Qualcomm's 3nm Snapdragon Wear Elite Platform and adding AI health features alongside brighter displays. The wearables launched together with Samsung's latest foldables in the Malaysian market.

Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3, a multimodal flow model that reportedly outperforms Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni, and Grok Imagine on generation benchmarks. The release also includes FLUX-mimic, a video-action robotics model linking visual generation to robotic control.

Cybersecurity researchers who hunt for vulnerabilities and build exploit tools report that AI guardrails from OpenAI and Anthropic are getting in the way of their legitimate offensive security work. The restrictions limit how researchers can use AI models for tasks like analyzing malware, fuzzing, and exploit development.

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is expanding to Australia, partnering with Stripe to identify and showcase the country's most promising early-stage startups. The competition will feature a panel of judges selecting Australia's next breakout startup.

Formula 1 may return to Malaysia's Sepang circuit after an eight-year absence, according to a report by Lowyat.NET. No official confirmation has been given yet.

The Malaysian government is planning a crackdown on non-compliant electrical products sold via e-commerce platforms, signalling tighter enforcement of safety and certification standards for online sellers. This move targets the growing volume of imported electrical goods flowing through major online marketplaces.

The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a couple of details I hadn't considered. First, Hugging Face offers a truly rich target if you're trying to find potential vulnerabilities that require executing arbitrary code: Hugging Face has an enormous attack surface. They have more interfaces than I can count which run untrusted models and code. While they definitely have invested in defences, by nature of their operating model they do have many more opportunities to be attacked than many other services. I certainly don't envy their cybersecurity teams. Secondly, one of the things that has puzzled me is how OpenAI didn't notice that their sandbox had been so thoroughly breached by the agent. Surely they'd be monitoring network traffic closely? Martin points out that: It's also likely they were running a huge amount of benchmarks simultaneously with ~unlimited token budgets - you want as many samples as possible to figure out how good a model is at a certain benchmark. It may also be they are testing various different checkpoints of the model too, understanding how the model is improving as it goes through the various training stages. The mistakes made by the OpenAI team running this benchmark are easier to imagine when you think about the scale at which benchmarks of this kind usually operate. For all we know they could have been subjecting a new model to dozens of benchmarks at the same time, in dozens of different environments. Via Lobste.rs Tags: security, ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, hugging-face, ai-security-research, openai-hugging-face-incident

Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua is stepping aside from his executive role as the company shifts its focus toward robotaxis and broader robotics applications. Shashua has been invited to remain as chairman of the board.

AMD is introducing Helios, a rack-scale AI system intended to compete directly with Nvidia's data center offerings, with shipments to customers expected later this year. The move signals AMD's continued push into the AI training and inference infrastructure market.

Patreon is laying off 20% of its workforce to adjust its cost structure in response to market changes. In a staff memo, the company stated that while its core business remains strong, the restructuring is necessary for long-term stability.

Insurance startup Corgi reportedly raised additional funding at a $4 billion valuation, marking its third funding round in just eight weeks. The pace reflects the broader AI-funding frenzy where startups are securing back-to-back rounds at rapidly escalating valuations.