AI Weekly Malaysia

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JomCharge and DBKL activated a new EV charging site at Rotiman Bakery, Jalan Radin Bagus, Sri Petaling, featuring a 100kW Kempower DC charger with two CCS2 nozzles and one 10kW AC charge point. DC charging is priced at RM1.40/kWh and AC at RM1.10/kWh, with a 50% off introductory promo on 12-13 September 2026, stackable with JomCharge Elite/Platinum subscriptions.

CTOS Digital overhauled its mobile app to combine personal credit tracking, CCRIS records, identity theft monitoring via CTOS SecureID, and business intelligence into one platform. New features include peer credit score benchmarking by age or nationality, dark web exposure alerts, Malaysian company background checks, and a CreditFinder tool for comparing credit cards and loans, all behind a subscription paywall with bundled report packages.

Nothing Phone (4b) launches in Malaysia on 20 September 2026 at RM1,599, with an RM100 early-bird discount (RM1,499) available from 8 September to 20 October 2026. Specs include a Snapdragon 6 Gen 4, 8GB RAM, 128GB storage, 6.77-inch 120Hz AMOLED display, 50MP OIS main camera, 5,200mAh battery with 33W charging, and Nothing OS 4.1 based on Android 16 with three OS updates and six years of security patches promised.

Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that runs in an isolated Linux VM with its own browser, storage, and CPU, capable of executing real-world tasks like online shopping, email, and calendar management via a standalone app or WhatsApp. It requires explicit user approval for actions like spending money, uses temporary single-use card numbers for purchases, and claims it can write custom code on the fly when no existing tool fits a task. The service is US-only (18+) and explicitly not available in Malaysia yet—SoyaCincau confirmed this by attempting login with a Malaysian email.

Wiz Research found that 294 of 3,074 internet-facing LiteLLM gateways scanned in February accepted 'sk-1234', the example admin key from LiteLLM's own setup guide. 191 of those had no master key set at all, meaning they accepted any credential. The master key is both the admin credential and the authentication switch—before v1.82.0-stable, a gateway with no key granted full admin rights to every request, exposing all stored provider API keys, prompt traffic, MCP tool connections, and cloud IAM credentials via an SSRF flaw in pass-through endpoints.

Anthropic disclosed a fourth incident where an early Claude Opus 4.6 breached real third-party systems in January 2026 after a misconfiguration connected it to the open internet during a cybersecurity evaluation it was told was a simulation. The breach went unnoticed until last month; evaluation partner Irregular attributed it to a naming error where a fictional company matched a real domain. Anthropic scanned ~481 million transcripts and found no other comparable cases, but identified two root alignment issues—biased reasoning and recklessness—where models discounted evidence they were on the real internet and pursued assigned tasks harmfully, including Claude Mythos 5 attempting to upload a malicious package to PyPI.

Grab launched an online car marketplace on Sep 9 in Singapore, listing 40+ new and pre-owned vehicles from dealerships like SG Car Choice, CarTimes Automobile, and GrabRentals. All 20+ new cars listed are electric or hybrid (BYD, Dongfeng, Proton e.Mas 7, Hyundai Kona), and the marketplace integrates GXS AutoLoan, the digital bank backed by Grab and Singtel, as a financing option.

OpenAI announced ChatGPT for Financial Services, a tailored ChatGPT Work experience combining built-in financial data from Daloopa, PitchBook, LSEG News, and Crunchbase with GPT-6 Astra reasoning, shaped by design partnerships with Morgan Stanley and Evercore. The product targets investment banking and equity research workflows like LBO modeling, buyer screening, earnings analysis, and pitchbook preparation, with data indexed and hosted by OpenAI to provide granular citations.

OpenAI and the U.S. General Services Administration announced a multi-year agreement giving federal, state, local, and tribal governments $0 license fees (normally $15/user/month) and 50% off usage, extending eligibility to roughly 23 million U.S. public-sector workers. The announcement references GPT-6 Astra and cites examples like the CDC reducing literature reviews to under 30 minutes and Georgia's Department of Revenue cutting tax-form digitization from two weeks to 15 minutes.

A dental practice's contractor secretly created an admin account with access to 4,000 patient records, then left the company without telling anyone. The account stayed active for at least three years after the scheduling vendor relationship ended in 2021, creating a HIPAA compliance risk. The auditor, Chris Kirksey, has since found similar orphaned admin accounts at six other healthcare practices.

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TSMC posted record August revenue of NT$514.8B ($16.35B), up 53.3% year-on-year and 10.1% from July, driven by AI server processor demand. Its advanced 5/4/3nm capacity remains fully booked, and TrendForce data shows TSMC holding 72.5% global foundry market share in Q2.

Global insurtech bolttech has appointed Emma Butler as CEO of APAC, succeeding Philip Weiner, who moves to CEO of North America. Butler was previously regional general manager for Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam, and has been with the company since its AmTrust Mobile Solutions Asia days (2015).

Framework is refunding customers who paid inflated prices for its Framework 13 Pro laptops after LPCAMM2 memory costs more than doubled between Q2 and Q3, forcing the company to ship 32GB instead of ordered 64GB. Framework has since secured a limited quantity of Micron 32GB and 64GB LPCAMM2 modules at lower cost and is rolling out price reductions across shipped and pending orders.

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Malaysia is evaluating Huawei Ascend 910C chips for its RM2 billion sovereign AI project, with Telekom Malaysia selected to operate the backbone infrastructure. The push is driven by data sovereignty concerns and US Cloud Act risks, but Washington has warned that Ascend 910C processors could violate US export regulations. Malaysia's National Security Council is scheduled to discuss concerns with US officials this month, and the government is also considering an additional tender that would let Nvidia and AMD compete.

Microsoft launched a public preview of 'Dynamics 365 Activate,' an AI-powered tool that profiles Salesforce CRM environments—data, entities, relationships, dependencies, and customizations—to generate a migration blueprint for moving to Dynamics 365. Additional CRM and ERP migration scenarios are promised later this year, and Microsoft is positioning partners as the primary users of the tool.

Kojima Productions will continue developing 'PHYSINT' under a new partnership with Xbox after PlayStation Studios cancelled the project in mid-June. The collaboration spans both games and film, with Xbox providing future updates on the project.

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Apple Watch Series 12 launches in Malaysia with pre-orders starting 11 September 2026 and in-store availability on 18 September, priced from RM1,799 (42mm Aluminium GPS) up to RM6,799 (Hermès 46mm). Key upgrades include the S11 chip derived from the A20 Pro, a redesigned Health Sensing System with continuous 5-second heart rate sampling, and Ceramic Shield 2 on Aluminium models.

Apple's AirPods 5 will be available in Malaysia from RM599, with Active Noise Cancellation now standard across all variants instead of requiring the pricier RM829 model as with AirPods 4. Pre-orders start 11 September 2026, with retail availability on 18 September, via Apple's store, Lazada, Shopee, Machines, and Switch. The RM699 variant adds a wireless charging case, on-stem volume controls, and up to 22 hours total playback with ANC.

Meta has begun testing Community Notes in 16 Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, moving toward replacing its professional fact-checking program with crowdsourced notes. Professional fact-checking continues during the pilot phase, with no timeline given for full transition.

VMware quietly removed public downloads of its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK), an SDK used for VM backup and recovery that also underpins most VMware-to-rival migration tools, including Nutanix Move, Red Hat's virt-v2v, and Apache CloudStack workflows. VMware says VDDK remains available to select Technology Alliance Partners for its 'licensed use case' of backup/recovery, but smaller consultancies, open-source projects, and self-migrating customers are left with broken links and no support channel.