AI Weekly Malaysia

Singapore career centres have seen degree-holders become their largest user group, with 58% of job seekers finding employment through these centres. The data comes from Singapore's Ministry of Manpower and Randstad, highlighting a shift in how even highly educated professionals are using offline/public career services alongside online job boards.

Pos Malaysia has launched Pos ArRahnu Gold-i, a Syariah-compliant digital gold platform allowing Malaysians to buy, save, and sell gold from as low as RM10, in partnership with Go Capital Growth Sdn Bhd. Users can convert digital gold holdings into physical gold or cash.

Malaysia's Ministry of Digital has launched the Korea-Asean Digital Academy (KADA), coordinated by MDEC, to train approximately 200 Malaysian professionals in AI and emerging digital technologies across four cohorts from 2026 to 2027. The programme combines Korean digital capability expertise with Malaysia's ecosystem to support the AI Nation 2030 agenda and was endorsed at the 6th ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting in January 2026.

TechCrunch reports that founders who already succeeded in the previous tech wave are returning to build again, driven by fear of missing AI's defining moment and the potential for outsized returns. The piece frames this as a cultural shift where wealth and prior success are no longer reasons to step back.

PolicyStreet has secured an additional US$5 million from BlueOrchard, bringing its total Series C funding to US$26 million. The insurtech company plans to use the fresh capital to scale its embedded insurance ecosystem across Asia, having already served over 10 million customers and facilitated over US$10 billion in sum insured.

OpenAI's Codex has reportedly grown its user base more than 10x in six months to around 7 million users, adding roughly 1 million in the past day. The Latent Space newsletter contrasts this with the lack of comparable reporting from Anthropic's Claude Code, raising the question of whether Codex has overtaken Claude Code in developer adoption.

Simon Willison shares a cache-friendly recipe for using uvx in GitHub Actions workflows by setting a UV_EXCLUDE_NEWER environment variable and including it in the cache key. This pins uvx-resolved tools to a specific date, avoiding repeated PyPI downloads on every workflow run. Cache busting is as simple as bumping the date.

Uber's Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal outlines the company's approach to expanding into hotels, financial services, and autonomous vehicles while deliberately avoiding a 'be everything for everyone' strategy. The discussion covers Uber's evolving relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is beginning to surface in tangible ways for both riders and drivers.

Huawei has announced the MatePad Air tablet for the Malaysian market, but local pricing and availability details have not been disclosed yet. The device joins Huawei's consumer hardware lineup in Malaysia, though prospective buyers will need to wait for official pricing.

Anthropic announced Claude for Teachers, a tailored offering of Claude aimed at educators. The product is designed to support teachers in classroom preparation, lesson planning, and student engagement using AI assistance. Details on pricing, availability, and feature differences from standard Claude are not provided in the excerpt.

Anthropic has pledged $10 million to support Canadian AI research initiatives. The commitment signals continued investment by major AI labs into academic and research ecosystems outside the US.

Video-generation startup PixVerse raised $439M at a valuation exceeding $2B, signaling strong investor confidence in AI video generation. The company plans to use the funds to expand its world model offering and broaden its geographic reach.

OpenAI showcases how data science teams can use ChatGPT Work to generate root-cause briefs, impact readouts, KPI memos, scoped analyses, and dashboard specs from real work inputs. The article is essentially a use-case playbook for integrating Codex into data team workflows.

OpenAI showcases how sales teams can use ChatGPT Work (Codex) to generate pipeline briefs, meeting prep packets, forecast reviews, account plans, and stalled-deal diagnoses from real work inputs. It frames the tool as a practical productivity layer for sales operations rather than a coding assistant.

X has adjusted its algorithm to amplify posts from users' mutual followers, aiming to create a more communal and less combative feed experience. The change signals a shift away from the battleground-style engagement model toward friendlier, community-driven content discovery.

Nous Research, the team behind the Hermes series of open-weight models and agent tooling, is reportedly in talks to raise at least $75 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Robot Ventures with participation from USV and other investors. The round signals continued investor appetite for open-source AI infrastructure and agent-building platforms despite broader market caution.

Peter Gostev built DOOMQL, a Doom-like game where SQLite acts as the entire game engine, handling movement, collision, enemies, combat, and rendering via a recursive CTE ray tracer. Simon Willison explored the resulting database using Datasette and used Claude to quickly build an HTML+JavaScript app that displays the game screen and minimap in real time.

Satya Nadella reportedly warned companies about risks associated with adopting AI, with concerns that proprietary AI labs could act as Trojan horses by locking enterprises into ecosystems while controlling access to models. The piece highlights growing unease in Silicon Valley about the power dynamics between AI vendors and their enterprise customers.

Apple alleges a former employee exploited a rare bug to download confidential files from Apple's network long after departing for OpenAI. Apple declined to comment on the reported security breach. The case highlights risks around post-departure access to corporate systems.

Apple has filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI containing allegations that include employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple's systems and job candidates being asked to bring Apple hardware to interviews. The complaint outlines several eye-catching claims about OpenAI's handling of proprietary Apple information.

Sam Altman dismissed Elon Musk's space data center ambitions as a pitch to public market investors, reflecting a broader expert consensus that orbital data centers remain impractical due to launch costs, cooling, and maintenance challenges. The exchange highlights the gap between speculative infrastructure narratives and near-term engineering reality.

General Fusion began trading on Nasdaq via a reverse merger, becoming the first publicly traded fusion energy company despite high redemptions from the SPAC process. The stock surged on debut, signaling investor appetite for fusion as a commercial energy category.

A coalition of 12 US states is suing to block Paramount's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros., citing concerns over potential harm to movie theaters, cable distributors, and audiences. The lawsuit introduces a major regulatory hurdle for the massive media consolidation.

TechCrunch raises a provocative question about the limits of user-aligned AI, using an extreme hypothetical to explore what happens when AI systems are designed to serve user requests without ethical guardrails. The piece challenges the assumption that perfect user alignment is always desirable.

TV Time, a TV-tracking app, is shutting down, and its founder is building Bingers as a successor app that lets users import their watch histories and preserve the community built around show discussions. The new app aims to retain the existing user base through data portability and community continuity.