AI Weekly Malaysia

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.

Lenny's Newsletter's Community Wisdom roundup collects practitioner takes on quarterly planning with AI, cash versus equity compensation, paying candidates for interview exercises, AI-powered outbound sales, and compliance-focused startup opportunities. It is a broad digest of current operating debates for product and startup teams.

Alibaba has reportedly classified Anthropic's Claude Code as high-risk software and banned employees from using it internally. The move highlights growing enterprise scrutiny over AI coding assistants that send code or context to third-party services.

TNB Electron has activated a new 120kW DC EV charger at Wisma TNB MITC, Ayer Keroh in Melaka, with complimentary charging during the operational testing period on 5th July. This adds to TNB Electron's growing network of EV charge points across Malaysia.

Mistral AI is a European AI company founded in 2023 that develops both open source and proprietary AI models, positioning itself as a competitor to OpenAI. It has raised significant funding with a stated mission to make frontier AI accessible to everyone.

ChargEV has installed EV charging stations featuring both DC and AC charge points at 1 First Avenue and 8 First Avenue in Bandar Utama. The deployment includes an opening promo for visitors and tenants of the office buildings.

Open Source AI Gap Map Current AI is "a global partnership building a public option for AI", founded as a non-profit at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025 and backed by serious capital ($400m already committed). They launched their Gap Map a couple of days ago - an attempt at indexing the current state of open source AI: The Gap Map v0.1 details 421 products in depth: 266 software tools and libraries, 85 models, 50 datasets, and 20 hardware projects, produced by 228 organizations. These products are organized into 14 categories across 3 layers of the stack (model components, product / UX, and infrastructure). The remaining 24,400 artifacts constitute the uncategorized long tail of the open source AI ecosystem, and will carry no score until they are researched and cited. The map itself is interesting to explore, but I'm more excited about the underlying data - released under an MIT license in the currentai-org/os-ai-map GitHub account: 1,184 YAML files plus the notebooks, schemas and other scripts used to help gather them. Since the files are on GitHub you can use Datasette Lite to explore some of them - here are 16,185 GitHub repos the project is tracking as a CSV file loaded into Datasette Lite. Tags: open-source, ai, datasette-lite, generative-ai, local-llms, llms

I just launched my third course, Whimsical Animations, and so far, it’s on track to sell roughly ⅓ as many copies as a typical course launch. It’s a similar story with my two existing courses. Sales are down significantly from last year. There are likely a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest is AI. There’s sort of a double whammy with AI: Many people are wondering whether developer jobs will even exist in a few months, so they’re reluctant to spend time/money learning new dev skills. Even if they do want to learn new dev skills, LLMs can provide personalized tutoring, so there’s less incentive to buy a paid course. [...] I’ve spoken to a few course creators now, and we’re all seeing the same trend. Revenue down 50%+. Fewer people engaging with our content. People switching to LLMs, which slurp up all of our work and regurgitate it, without consent or compensation. — Josh W. Comeau, via Salma Alam-Naylor Tags: ai-ethics, llms, ai, generative-ai, careers, josh-comeau

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

One of the most interesting tips I got from the Fireside Chat I hosted with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at AIE on Wednesday was to let Fable (and to a certain extent Opus) use their own judgement rather than dictating how they should work. The example they gave was testing. You can tell Fable "only use automated testing for larger features, don't update and run tests for small copy or design changes" - but it's better to just tell Fable to use its own judgement when deciding to write tests instead. Jesse Vincent just gave me a related tip to help avoid burning too many of those valuable Fable tokens in the few days we have left before the prices go up. Tell Fable to use other models for smaller tasks, applying its own judgement about which model to use. I prompted Claude Code just now with: For all coding tasks use your judgement to decide an appropriate lower power model and run that in a subagent Claude saved this memory file in ~/.claude/projects/name-of-project/memory/delegate-coding-to-subagents.md: --- name: delegate-coding-to-subagents description: Simon wants coding tasks delegated to subagents running an appropriately lower-power model metadata: node_type: memory type: feedback originSessionId: 30068d78-43a9-4fb1-bb29-9799e18c526a --- Stated by Simon on 2026-07-03: "For all coding tasks use your judgement to decide an appropriate lower power model and run that in a subagent." Why: cost/efficiency — implementation work rarely needs the top-tier model; judgment, review, and synthesis stay with the main loop. How to apply: when a task in this project is primarily writing/editing code, spawn an Agent with a model override (sonnet for substantive implementation, haiku for trivial/mechanical edits) and a self-contained prompt; review the result in the main loop before committing. Design, auditing, data synthesis, and anything judgment-heavy stays in the main model. See also [[project-goals]]. So far it seems to be working well. I'm getting a ton of work done and my Fable allowance is shrinking less quickly than before. Tags: claude, ai, claude-code, llms, prompt-engineering, coding-agents, generative-ai, claude-mythos-fable, anthropic

The gadget has three buttons, and it changes context based on what app you are looking at. For instance, in meeting apps and sites, it could be toggle mic, toggle video, and bring window to the front.

The Chevy Silverado EV is a solid first draft of an EV pickup truck. Here's what could make it better.

Gentari and MBPP have activated a new 120kW DC fast charger with two bays near Maybank Tanjung Bungah on Penang Island, continuing their street-level EV charger rollout. A 15% introductory discount is available for a limited time.

Simon Willison's June 2026 sponsor-only newsletter rounds up the latest AI model releases, including Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6, and GLM-5.2 as the new best open weights model, plus US export restrictions. It also covers developer tools like Datasette Apps, sqlite-utils, shot-scraper, and miscellaneous WASM projects.

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim unveiled the Proton S70 1.5T i-GT Premium as the official taxi for the National Madani Taxi Reform Programme (IMTP). The vehicle, originally launched in February, will be available for individual taxi drivers and includes modifications distinguishing it from current taxis on Malaysian roads.

Trainocate Malaysia, a Japan-founded global IT training provider celebrating 30 years in Malaysia, is seeing rising corporate demand for AI skills training. The company has evolved its portfolio from networking to virtualization, cloud computing, and now AI, serving mixed corporate classes with 17 training rooms and providing hardware for regulated industries like banking.

Brothers Gary Wong, 32, and James Wong, 31, built a home-based rosti business generating S$35K/month despite family warnings against F&B. Eight months in, they are planning to open a physical stall to meet growing demand.

Malaysia's Road Transport Department (JPJ) is extending the JPJePlate standardised number plate format to Malaysian taxis, two years after first introducing it for zero-emission vehicles. The taxi version shares a similar design and typeface with the EV plate.

The AI Engineer World's Fair closed with a debate on 'loops' in AI systems, a report on the current state of AI engineering, and keynotes on what to build next. The discussion highlights ongoing disagreement about how agentic loops should be designed and evaluated in production.

A European politician serving on an EU committee investigating the spyware industry was hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware by a government customer. The incident highlights how surveillance tools can be turned against the very oversight bodies meant to scrutinize them.

Effective July 1, 2026, Malaysian banks waived the RM1 MEPS interbank ATM withdrawal fee, but some users are still being charged. This occurs because not all ATMs in the country are part of the MEPS network, meaning certain machines still apply the fee.

Twenty startups from East and West Malaysia have advanced to the Startup World Cup Malaysia national finals, with two national champions set to represent Malaysia at the global finale in Silicon Valley for a US$1 million investment prize. The West Chapter final is on 23 July in Kuala Lumpur, and the East Chapter final on 31 July in Kuching, reflecting the competition's dual-region format.

TikTok Singapore laid off employees on July 1 as part of a global reorganisation, primarily affecting its Trust & Safety team that oversees content moderation. An affected employee indicated around 20 roles were impacted, though the full scope remains unclear.

JomCharge and DBKL have activated a new 100kW DC fast charger plus an AC charge point at Kuchai Lama, continuing their rollout of street-level EV charging infrastructure in Kuala Lumpur.