AI Weekly Malaysia

Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, an English-German Mixture-of-Experts Transformer with 78B total parameters, 3B active, up to 1M tokens of context, published as full weights on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. It was trained through the same pipeline as the earlier Kolibri Origin (30B total, 3B active, 65k context), and is specialized for German, reasoning, math, and agentic behavior, aimed at regulated sectors such as public administration, industrials, and aerospace. The announcement post contains no benchmark numbers, only a pointer to a separate tech report.

Google has sent a prototype satellite into orbit on SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission carrying four of its Tensor Processing Units, as the first phase of Project Suncatcher with Planet Labs PBC. The goal is to measure how the TPUs hold up under radiation and thermal extremes, and to test whether machine-learning workloads can realistically run in orbit. The article gives no performance numbers, costs, timelines, or results — only that the data will feed future design improvements.

Kagi announced on October 2, 2026 that it is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both, so its small team (funded entirely by Kagi subscribers) can focus on Orion for macOS and iOS. The current Linux Beta keeps working but receives no further updates from Kagi after that date, and Kagi says it does not recommend it as a main browser; Windows never shipped. Source release details are promised within 30 days, Kagi has approached open-source foundations about stewardship, and it states it will not be the core maintainer — it is inviting interested developers to email support@kagi.com.

Malaysia will get a free live broadcast of the Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix 2026 via RTM, in collaboration with beIN Sports. The schedule lists Practice 1/2 on Friday 2 Oct at 12:30 PM and 4:00 PM, Practice 3 and Qualifying on Saturday 3 Oct at 12:30 PM and 4:00 PM, and the Race on Sunday 4 Oct at 3:00 PM. Free access is on RTMKlik app/website, TV Okey on Astro Channel 146, and MYTV Channel 10; paid options include beIN Sports on Astro, Astro Go, Sooka, Unifi TV, and beIN Sports Connect.

A parody landing page, 'Extra Big Ass Intelligence™ — Federally Mandated Super Intelligence (SI) v1.0', styled as a decree that 'AI.exe has been deleted' and the term 'AI' is now illegal, replaced by 'SI'. It's built from fake ad slots — Brawndo electrolytes, a Wendy's 'Dynamic Menu™' surge-priced burger at $24.50 based on 'pupil dilation and your declining credit score', a 'Hot Single Model: Local 35B Parameter Model Wants To Chat In Your Area (ZERO REFUSAL VECTORS)', and a footer 'Paid for by the Committee To Re-elect Nobody'. It drew 281 points and 61 comments on Hacker News.

This Hacker News submission is just a link to the Newgrounds.com homepage (title: "A community of games, music, and art") with no article text available — the excerpt only contains the URL and the comments link. The only concrete data points are the community reaction: 385 points and 108 comments on the HN thread. Nothing about Newgrounds' stack, business model, traffic, or any change to the site is stated in the text provided.

Meta introduced Muse Gadgets, an open-source project that lets developers build hardware connecting to its Muse personal AI agent, providing open-source firmware, a Linux SDK, and starter ideas like a color e-ink display or a stick that plugs into a TV's HDMI port. Meta also built its own reference device, Muse Home Link — a USB-C-powered gadget that lets Muse connect to a home network and control smart speakers and smart TVs — and made 5,000 units, given away free to Muse subscribers while supplies last, per a post on X by Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta's Superintelligence Labs. Named hardware targets are low-cost boards like Raspberry Pi and off-the-shelf ESP32, with a Discord channel set up for support.

ChargEV replaced two AC charge points at The Curve, Mutiara Damansara with a standalone 60kW Autel DC charger with two CCS2 nozzles at Level B1 Pillar S6. It costs RM1.30 per kWh, can be activated via ChargEV, JomCharge, and Gentari Go, and carries a RM0.50 per minute idle fee if you do not move 20 minutes after charging ends. A 20% launch promo with code CRV26 runs until 11pm on 4 October 2026, making it RM1.04 per kWh; The Curve also has DC chargers from ChargeSini and Carput Zap.

A critique by Deric Tilson and Adam Stein argues that Harvard-affiliated studies linking nuclear power plants to cancer use a proximity-score methodology that also yields absurd results: Costco warehouses 'cause' 120,687 annual cancer deaths, private colleges 83,782, Harvard 5,842, and MLB fields 19 times as many cancer deaths as MLS pitches. They replicated and expanded the analysis, claiming the method produces increased cancer risk/mortality no matter which landmark is used, and recap the underlying papers led by Yazan Alwadi at Harvard T.H. Chan, from a Dec 2025 Massachusetts study using a 120 km radius to national studies using 200 km radii.

Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would bar federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers or accessing data collected by local police and private ALPR operators, with exceptions only for toll collection and future congressionally-approved uses capped at 48-hour retention. Non-compliant state and local governments would lose grants from five federal departments including Justice and Homeland Security starting the first fiscal year after enactment, and Americans could sue the federal government while state attorneys general could enforce. Flock is described in the bill's framing as the largest US ALPR vendor with more than 120,000 cameras and, per a February company blog post, over 20 billion vehicle reads per month; in August CEO Garrett Langley announced default retention cut from 30 days to 7, plus an audit tool that locks officers out pending review of unusual searches.

Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.

WASHINGTON, Oct 3 — Dario Amodei says he is not part of it. But the Anthropic chief’s personal and professio...

Museum: Rex's Dino Store Located just before the turnstiles in the Grand Army Plaza subway station at the north end of Brooklyn's Prospect Park is this former newsstand which is now operated by a dinosaur. The density of dinosaur puns is exceptional. Tags: art, new-york

Cerebras shares hit an all-time low due to pressure from chip giant Nvidia, plus a post-lockup selloff.

1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps.

Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.

Anthropic will invest $100 million to train nearly 10,000 AI engineers, partnering with a number of consulting firms.

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Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.

Actors with makeup and fake symptoms staggered into 73 healthcare facilities.

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=p6zjojqw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937631

Article URL: https://matduggan.com/what-does-my-dream-os-ui-look-like/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937540

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