AI Weekly Malaysia

In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the company's new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.

After days of upheaval at Automattic, following a failed attempt to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg, the company has a new board.

Heidi Overton faced questions focused on vaccines, birth control, and vapes.

AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.

Article URL: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850305

"Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.

Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.

Article URL: https://swarmtraces.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849985

Related: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelblog/excel-now... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849832

It is getting harder for college students and recent graduates to be seen in the job market as AI is used as a hiring tool and demanded by employers as a skill.

Anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list.

When NPR staffers flagged strange comments under their podcasts on Spotify as bots, it took a Gen Z colleague to (immediately) figure out the mystery.

Article URL: https://fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-campus-surveillance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849141

Ads appearing all over the Internet are trying to scam people.

Do you currently work with or know anyone who is still using:* dBase/Clipper/CLARION/Paradox/other DOS RAD environments on period hardware to run business processes?* CNC mills/spectrometers/microscopes/other industrial instruments controlled by ISA cards (either bespoke or standards like GPIB)?* Anything with a parallel port dongle?If so, I'd be very interested in hearing your experience here, or feel free to send me an email at the address in my profile. I'm not trying to sell anything, just doing some research for an idea around keeping these going on modern hardware. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848955

Better thermals and battery life make this iterative update nicer to use.

Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.

"There is no evidence of any significant, widespread displacement or reduction in hiring.”

With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.

Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.

US judge reviews deal with California, says it must not be result of collusion.

The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company's massive AI data center buildout.

Article URL: https://ollaya.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848269

Renewables easily cover changes in US demand, which is rising by 2% in 2026.