AI Weekly Malaysia

Alessio Fanelli demonstrates a workflow using OpenAI Symphony paired with Linear to run parallel autonomous coding agents remotely from a phone, including a live demo of Codex scanning for underpriced Pokémon cards in real time. The setup shows how agent orchestration can be managed without being at a desk.

Huawei Malaysia has launched the MatePad Pro Max, a 13.2-inch tablet billed as the world's thinnest at 4.7mm, featuring a Flexible OLED PaperMatte display and AI-powered PC-level WPS Office. It retails at RM5,999 and supports the M-Pencil Pro and Glide Keyboard accessories.

Even Realities, a smart glasses startup founded by ex-Apple engineers, raised $150 million at a $1 billion valuation in a round led by Meituan and Tencent. The company builds camera-free smart glasses, positioning them as a privacy-friendly wearable alternative.

Fortinet has appointed Luca Simonelli as senior vice president for Asia Pacific, based in Singapore, overseeing sales and regional growth across Japan, South Asia, Southeast Asia, ANZ, and India. The appointment comes as organizations in the region accelerate AI adoption, cloud transformation, and cybersecurity investments.

Huawei Malaysia is launching the Pura 90s Pro and Pura 90s Pro Max on 14 July 2026, with rebates up to RM400. Malaysia is among the first global markets to receive the devices after their China debut.

Monash University Malaysia spin-out FirstChip has been selected as an inaugural recipient of the MTDC-SemiconStart grant, receiving up to US$235,000 to commercialize locally developed semiconductor IP. The company's core technology is a wirelessly powered sensor chip designed for industrial corrosion monitoring in sealed environments, built on patents developed through years of university research.

Tune Talk has launched E-Roaming, offering free data roaming in 13 countries on its Epik+ 50, Family, and Epik+ Family Safe prepaid plans. The benefit also extends to supplementary lines on the Family plans.

Agility Robotics is going public via a SPAC, taking a pragmatic stance on commercialization rather than chasing inflated valuations like some humanoid robotics peers. The CEO is tempering expectations, signaling that home-use humanoid robots remain distant despite industry hype.

Malaysia's IGEM 2026 and KLSS 2026 events aim to accelerate the country's transition to a low-carbon economy, building on its net-zero by 2050 pledge and enhanced NDC 3.0 commitments. The ASEAN green economy could generate up to US$1 trillion annually by 2030 across renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and green infrastructure, creating demand for clean technologies, sustainable finance, and climate solutions.

U Mobile is forming an advisory panel ahead of the launch of its Enterprise Innovation Platform (EIP) in July 2026. The platform aims to connect enterprises, startups, technology providers, and academia to test and develop 5G and AI-powered solutions for real-world business challenges.

Vertiv has opened a new 236,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Senai, Johor, producing power, cooling, and integrated infrastructure solutions for AI and traditional data centres across Asia. The factory positions Johor as a key node in the regional AI infrastructure supply chain.

The Government of Alberta deployed Anthropic's Claude to identify and remediate cybersecurity vulnerabilities across its government systems. The case study highlights how an AI assistant can be embedded into public-sector security workflows to augment human analysts.

Anthropic's Claude blog published a field guide focused on discovering unknown use cases and capabilities of Claude, emphasizing exploratory workflows over prescribed tasks. The guide frames 'finding your unknowns' as a practical methodology for users to systematically probe what the model can and cannot do well.

Hugging Face announced major updates to its Kernels platform, which provides a hub for sharing and running optimized GPU kernels (CUDA, Triton, and similar) for ML workloads. The revamp likely improves discoverability, execution, and integration of community-contributed kernels with the broader HF ecosystem.

Uber's plan to launch in seven new European markets in 2026 has reportedly stalled, with five of those launches now on hold. The article highlights regulatory or operational friction affecting the company's expansion timeline.

An analysis found that nearly 1 million investors lost a combined $3.8 billion buying the $TRUMP memecoin, while Trump himself earned $636 million. The figures highlight the asymmetric risk profile of politically branded speculative tokens.

Amazon is winding down Mechanical Turk by no longer accepting new customers, signaling the end of one of the earliest platforms for crowdsourced human intelligence tasks. The service was widely used for data labeling, microtasks, and human-in-the-loop AI workflows.

A TechCrunch roundup highlights five desk gadgets aimed at reducing clutter, improving focus, and adding convenience to the workday. The piece is a general productivity lifestyle recommendation rather than a deep technical review.

Bending Spoons, a relatively low-profile company whose portfolio includes AOL and Vimeo, has gone public. Its products have collectively served more than a billion people, making it a notable player despite its lack of mainstream name recognition.

TechCrunch reports that nearly 90 new unicorns have been minted in 2026 so far, driven largely by an AI-fueled investor frenzy. Startups are reaching billion-dollar valuations at a rapid monthly pace.

Iwo Kadziela, assisted by Codex, generated a credible ASCII world map using just 445 bytes of data by combining deflate compression with a clever JavaScript snippet. The approach uses fetch() with data: URIs and DecompressionStream('deflate-raw') to decompress the payload at runtime.

Armin reports that newer Anthropic models like Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 increasingly invent extra fields when calling custom edit tools, causing schema rejections—while older models did not. The likely cause is that these models have been RL-trained specifically for Claude Code's built-in search-and-replace edit tool, degrading their ability to use third-party harness tools correctly. This raises the question of whether coding harnesses should implement multiple edit tools to match each model's preferred mechanism.

Google released a commercial reimagining the signing of the US Declaration of Independence as if the Founding Fathers had used Google Workspace with AI assistance. The ad is a marketing piece timed to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration.

Midjourney is seeking to compel three Hollywood studios to disclose details of their own AI usage as part of an ongoing legal dispute. The move suggests Midjourney is building a legal strategy that may hinge on exposing whether studios themselves rely on AI tools in ways that mirror or exceed what Midjourney does.

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