AI Weekly Malaysia

Tom's Hardware reports that OpenAI says actors linked to China-based Moonshot AI ran a campaign to extract its models' hidden reasoning, logging 16,000 extraction requests across 4,000 accounts before being cut off, with attempts peaking at 16,000 users over two days. The article body available here is mostly paywall and newsletter boilerplate, so the concrete detail is limited to the headline and URL: the 16,000 requests, 4,000 accounts, and two-day peak.

Why: If you ship a product on top of someone else's model API, this is a reminder that reasoning traces are treated as protected output, not a free training resource — distillation-by-scraping is what the account cutoffs were for. Before you build a pipeline that logs or replays another vendor's reasoning output, check their terms; the enforcement lever is account and key suspension, which hits your users, not just your bill. There is nothing Malaysia-specific in the text, and no pricing, version, or policy detail was included, so treat the specific numbers as an unverified vendor claim rather than a settled fact.

Google flew a prototype orbital compute satellite on a SpaceX launch from California on October 1, 2026 — the first time it has sent an advanced chip to space. The satellite, built on a Planet Labs platform, will test whether a Google TPU can run in orbit, firing it in 15-minute bursts to stay within the satellite's power and thermal limits; a two-satellite demo with laser links is expected next year, and Google's stated end state is 81 satellites flying in close formation. Google's own estimate is that roughly 1,600 Starship launches would be needed before space data centers get off the ground.

Why: Nothing here changes what you build or buy today: the prototype runs a TPU in 15-minute bursts precisely because continuous kilowatt power and cooling in orbit are unsolved, and the 1,600-launch figure puts orbital compute well beyond any current planning horizon. Treat space data centers as a multi-year research bet, not a capacity option — if you are modelling GPU/TPU supply or energy costs for the next few years, terrestrial constraints are still the binding ones.