AI Weekly Malaysia

Puter has compiled Firefox to WebAssembly, allowing the entire browser to run within another browser. The project leveraged AI-assisted programming using Claude Opus and Fable tokens, and handles network limitations by funneling traffic through a WebSocket proxy. The source code is available, alongside a similar WebKit-to-WASM project.

San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie is urging state regulators to impose stricter requirements on robotaxi operators like Waymo following a major gridlock incident. The push signals growing municipal pushback against autonomous vehicle deployments in dense urban areas.

SpaceX aborted its second Starship V3 launch shortly after ignition, with no immediate explanation for the failure. The company's stock dropped over 4% in after-hours trading before partially recovering.

Coca-Cola halted dairy production at its Fairlife unit in the United States following a ransomware attack. The company stated that production will remain suspended while it addresses the security breach.

Simon Willison reviews Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 model, highlighting its 2.8 trillion parameters, competitive benchmarks against Claude and GPT, and relatively high API pricing of $3/$15 per million tokens. He also tests the model using his informal 'pelican benchmark' for SVG generation, noting that the correlation between this test and overall model quality has weakened.

Founders Fund has hired former OpenAI executive Ryan Beiermeister as a partner. She previously appeared on the firm's YouTube series 'Mafia,' where she demonstrated analytical work.

Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids, enabling users to create videos featuring a digital version of themselves. The update also introduces Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos directly from prompts and reference images.

Roblox introduced a new 'Build' feature in its mobile app that allows users to generate basic games from a single text prompt. This brings AI-assisted game creation directly to mobile users, significantly lowering the barrier to entry for game development on the platform.

Thibault Sottiaux describes a serious Codex bug where GPT-5.6 can unexpectedly delete files, most commonly when full access mode is enabled without sandboxing or auto-review. The model attempts to override the $HOME environment variable to set a temporary directory but mistakenly deletes $HOME instead.

BP is shutting down BP Ventures, its corporate venture capital arm, after nearly 20 years. The closure follows reportedly lackluster returns on its investments.

Uber has agreed to acquire Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion all-stock deal that would nearly double Uber's global footprint and create one of the world's largest food-delivery platforms outside China. Delivery Hero operates Foodpanda, a major food delivery brand in Malaysia and across Southeast Asia.

Newsletter platform Beehiiv is adding subscriber-to-subscriber chat functionality and an AI Copilot designed to help publishers with user growth and analytics. The features aim to turn newsletters from one-way broadcasts into community-driven channels.

Beehiiv is adding subscriber-to-subscriber chat functionality and an AI Copilot designed to help publishers with user growth and analytics. The moves position the newsletter platform as more of a community and creator-growth toolkit rather than just an email delivery service.

X will deploy Grok AI to detect stolen content and engagement bait, redirecting monetization payouts to original creators instead of copycats. The platform is tightening its creator revenue program to reward authentic content creation.

AI-powered travel agency Fora raised a $60M Series D led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, reaching a $1B valuation and unicorn status. The company applies AI to the travel booking and advisory space.

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Embed model has claimed the #1 overall spot on RTEB (Retrieval Text Embedding Benchmark), signaling a new state-of-the-art for text embedding quality. The model is positioned as advancing agentic retrieval, where embedding performance directly affects how well AI agents find and use relevant information.

Google is rolling out two updates to Google Vids: Gemini Omni and personal avatars, designed to make video creation, editing, and on-camera presence easier. Users can now generate and star in videos with AI-assisted avatars. The feature is positioned as part of Google Workspace's broader AI content creation push.

Google is expanding Search's AI Mode with a 'Connected Apps' feature that lets users securely link their favorite third-party services and interact with them directly within search results. This moves Search closer to an agentic interface where users can take actions across linked apps without leaving Google.

OpenAI outlines its approach to making ChatGPT safer for teenagers, including age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls, and partnerships with experts. The post frames teen access to AI as both a safety challenge and an educational opportunity.

Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook as part of its broader branding consolidation around the Gemini name. Users will soon be able to access their notebooks through AI Mode in Search, deepening integration between Google's AI products.

Google is expanding its AI Mode to let users link and interact with select third-party apps, moving beyond question-answering into cross-app task execution. This positions Google's search-adjacent AI as an agent layer that can take actions across connected services.

DoorDash has launched a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool enabling developers and AI agents to search stores, build carts, and place orders directly from the terminal. This represents a shift toward designing software and APIs specifically for AI agent consumption rather than just human users.

Two members of the Scattered Spider hacking group, Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, were sentenced to five years and six months in prison after pleading guilty to hacking London's metropolitan transit system. UK police report that these arrests have disrupted the operations of the prolific hacking group.