AI Weekly Malaysia

GSMA's Mobile Net Zero Asia Pacific 2026 report, launched at M360 ASEAN in Kuala Lumpur, shows Southeast Asian mobile operational emissions rose ~20% since 2019, driven by 350% data traffic growth between 2019-2024. Malaysia's telcos cover only 5% of electricity needs with renewables versus a regional average of 4% and global average of 24%, though Telekom Malaysia crossed 20%. Regional operators spent USD 7 billion on energy in 2024, consuming 50 TWh of electricity and 350 million litres of diesel.

Article URL: https://www.upsocl.com/en/16-year-old-mexican-student-creates-an-acoustic-fire-extinguisher-that-uses-sound-waves-to-put-out-fires-in-seconds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652237

Anthropic alleges that Alibaba, Moonshot, and DeepSeek engaged in large-scale unauthorized 'distillation' of Claude outputs to train their own models, with Alibaba using Claude outputs for Qwen and Moonshot routing Kimi user requests through Claude. The findings appear in Anthropic's threat intelligence report covering December 2025 to August 2026, and note that some extracted exchanges contained sensitive data from individual users, multinationals, and state-affiliated actors.

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r6y4me2g6o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652105

Release: github-to-sqlite 2.9.1 Fix for compatibility with sqlite-utils 4.x. #85 Tags: github, sqlite

Farid Zakaria built trynix.dev, which runs a qemu-wasm powered x86_64 Linux VM entirely in the browser via WebAssembly, capable of booting any Nix package from the past 13 years. Packages are URL-addressable (e.g., ?pkg=python3@3.6.2), and a companion GitHub Action called trynix-preview can post a link on a PR that boots the PR's build in-browser for review with no servers involved.

OpenAI has released GPT-Live-1 as an API, a full-duplex voice model that can listen and generate speech simultaneously, enabling more natural conversational AI apps. It scores 86.2% on the Tau3 voice-agent benchmark versus 45.7% for GPT-Realtime-2.1, and Speak reported an ~80% reduction in learner interruptions. The model handles spoken conversation while a separate backend model (e.g., GPT-6 Astra) manages tool use and task execution.

Article URL: https://nasutton.notion.site/Nine-coding-harnesses-vs-your-laptop-3d139990182b80d59fa3cf500f0450ba?pvs=74 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49651221

Anthropic's fourth AI misuse report documents activity disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven harm areas, including Claude being used by Russian SVR-linked group GTG-20006 (APT29/Cozy Bear) to speed up attacks, ShinyHunters exploiting Claude, and attempts at bioweapons research and kamikaze drone swarm development. The report covers Claude Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus models; Anthropic notes its most advanced 'Fable/Mythos-class' models were not involved except in one distillation case.

Collaborative Fund (~$1B AUM) is taking a stake in D.C. United and Audi Field, following Thrive Capital's play of turning venture money into pro sports ownership via its Thrive Eternal vehicle. Thrive previously bought the Lakers outright for a record $12.5B after taking a stake in the San Francisco Giants.

A boy developed erythema ab igne ('toasted skin syndrome'), a reticular skin condition caused by prolonged exposure to laptop heat, after daily laptop use. The article text itself was not available—only cookie consent boilerplate was captured.

At the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference, Jensen Huang reiterated Nvidia's 70% year-over-year revenue growth guidance for next year, which would take revenue from ~$400B to ~$680B. He framed Nvidia not as a chip company but a full-system provider, noting a single GPU system now costs $8.5M, consumes 250,000 kW, and contains 2 million parts, with 27% month-over-month sales growth for the Grace CPU + Blackwell GPU combo.

Oracle beat Q1 FY2027 consensus with $19.35B revenue (vs $19.14B expected) and $1.92 adjusted EPS (vs $1.74 expected), growing ~30% YoY, with cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubling. Q2 guidance projects 30-34% revenue growth and $1.85-$1.93 adjusted EPS, driven largely by data center expansion tied to AI demand.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky told CNBC at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference that AI is neither inherently good nor bad, comparing it to nuclear power. He framed AI as a 'cognitive revolution' and urged humans to 'surf the wave' rather than get swallowed by it, while admitting he isn't confident the outcome will be positive.

Shopify is abandoning React Native after six years, reverting to separate Swift and Kotlin codebases for their mobile apps. The stated reason is that AI coding agents can now handle enough of the implementation, translation, testing, and review work across two native codebases that the cost of maintaining parallel platforms is no longer the deciding factor it was in 2020.

OpenAI has temporarily disabled new sign-ups for its $200/month Pro plan because demand for Astra—its newest model launched September 3—is straining infrastructure. The pause was announced on X by product leader Tibo Sottiaux, who leads Codex and ChatGPT; API, Go, and Plus plans remain available. OpenAI has not said how long the pause will last or disclosed sign-up volume.

Anthropic released a report detailing nearly 200 million exchanges across five distillation campaigns attributed to China-based AI companies including Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek, aimed at extracting Claude's chain-of-thought to train smaller models. Attackers bypassed Anthropic's 'summarized thinking' safeguards using techniques like framing queries as translation requests to trick the model into revealing its internal reasoning traces. Alibaba was identified as running the largest wholesale distillation effort Anthropic has observed.

LinkedIn has won dismissal of lawsuits dubbed 'BrowserGate' that alleged the platform unlawfully scanned users' Chrome extensions. The actual article content was not available—only the headline and site consent boilerplate were captured.

Furo, a startup building software for industrial battery storage systems, raised $4M from mostly U.S. VCs (TQ Ventures, Neo, Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners) after its three 28-year-old founders moved back to Germany from Silicon Valley. Within a year of founding, they landed enterprise clients like Deutsche Bahn, arguing that proximity to the European energy market mattered more than Bay Area presence for their go-to-market.

When I was about 11 years old, my best friend and I were playing during recess at school, and I was carrying him around on my back, presumably pretending to be a multipart attack robot. All of a sudden, my heart started hurting, and I collapsed to my knees, and the robot was no more. Every time I inhaled, it would feel like a spike was being driven into my heart, and my breathing got completely shallow. I was sure I was done for, when all of a sudden, after an exhale, it disappeared.It wasn't until I was in my twenties that I learned this was called Precordial catch syndrome and it happens to most everyone. Every friend I've told about it was surprised, and also most knew the feeling.I collected a growing list of strange things bodies do ever since. And now finally I made it into a little page for others to see:https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/It includes a form to tell me about new things, if you think they belong on the page. Feedback welcome! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649789

Apple Watch Series 12 introduces Audio Intelligence features powered by the S11 chip, including Live Rewind (captures 15 seconds of audio, transcribes it on a nearby iPhone, then discards the audio) and Siri Recap (generates high-level summaries of conversations throughout the day). Apple claims these respect bystander privacy via an audible chime and on-screen animation, but bystanders have not consented to recording—a legal requirement in 11 US all-party-consent states.

Meta's new AI agent app Muse reached No. 2 on the US App Store with 83,000+ iOS downloads, but Sensor Tower data shows this lags far behind Meta's own Threads (4.3M launch day) and Meta AI (108K debut), and took twice as long as ChatGPT's daily average to hit the same number. The app is US-only, with its Android version stuck at No. 338 in the Productivity category on Google Play, though it's also accessible via web and WhatsApp.

Shopify has acquired Tailwind Labs, giving the CSS framework (110M+ weekly installs) a stable home after AI coding tools eroded its revenue, forcing three layoffs in January. Tailwind CSS remains MIT-licensed and open source, but is now developed under Shopify, where it was already a core part of the stack.

Article URL: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/overview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649213

Nintendo of America is redirecting tariff refunds into a 'customer appreciation' sale rather than issuing direct refunds to Switch 2 buyers. The sale runs September 13–26 and offers 30% off games and accessories.