AMD sees Malaysia as part of its Southeast Asia AI infrastructure focus. AMD said yotta-scale AI will require enterprises to rethink AI infrastructure planning. Yotta-scale AI is changing how enterprises think about infrastructure as workloads move beyond on-demand use and toward continuous inference, reasoning, and autonomous agents, Alexey Navolokin, General Manager for Asia Pacific at ... Read more ›
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Instagram will end encrypted DMs after 8 May 2026. ExpressVPN said the move raises privacy concerns. Instagram is ending support for end-to-end encrypted DMs globally. The change means Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messaging after 8 May 2026. Meta stated the date on its Instagram help page and also confirmed the change through ... Read more ›
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NEXTDC launched KL1 Kuala Lumpur, its first Southeast Asia data centre. KL1 opens as Malaysia’s data centre market expands. NEXTDC has launched KL1 Kuala Lumpur, its first data centre in Southeast Asia. The facility is located in Klang Valley, Malaysia’s main business and technology hub. NEXTDC said KL1 represents a long-term investment of AUD$1 billion, ... Read more ›
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Microsoft reviews AI startup deals as it builds in-house AI models. The internal AI moves come as OpenAI agreement changes. Microsoft is assessing potential acquisitions of artificial intelligence startups, according to Reuters, citing five people familiar with the matter. Three of the people said Microsoft has reviewed targets with AI research talent and technical abilities. ... Read more ›
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Google says attackers are using AI for zero-days and reconnaissance. Report highlights AI-linked zero-days, Android malware, and AI supply chain attacks. Google threat researchers say attackers are expanding their use of generative AI in cyber operations. The activity spans vulnerability research, malware development and attacks on AI software supply chains. The findings come from Google ... Read more ›
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Nexxen, the advertising technology platform powered by unique data and media, has launched a new predictions report on Singaporean viewership of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, using Nexxen’s proprietary data and resources to track past, present, and future audience behaviour. Through data-driven forecasts based on historical trends as well as current analysis, the report offers ... Read more ›
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Malaysia’s enterprise AI readiness gap stems from fragmented data. AI deployment depends more on governed data than model choice. Malaysia’s plan to become a regional data and AI hub by 2030 is raising questions about whether enterprises have the data systems needed to deploy AI beyond pilots. Cecily Ng, Vice President and General Manager of ... Read more ›
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Anthropic SpaceXAI Colossus 1 deal adds 300MW and 220,000 GPUs for Claude. xAI folds into SpaceXAI as Anthropic expands compute. Anthropic has signed an agreement with SpaceXAI to use Colossus 1, the AI supercomputer cluster originally built by xAI, as part of its infrastructure for Claude. The companies announced the deal on Wednesday. Anthropic said ... Read more ›
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Five local companies form consortium to build what Malaysia has never had. No funding secured, no anchor customer, and the clock is running. SEMICON SEA 2026: local players still don’t own an advanced packaging process. The number that stopped the room at MITEC on Wednesday afternoon was not the target. It was the starting point. ... Read more ›
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Hyundai Card tested generative AI PR writing against a human-written draft in a blind test. Hyundai Card is expanding hands-on LLM training for leaders and employees. Hyundai Card has started testing the use of generative AI in public relations work, including press release writing, editing, and planning. The company recently held an internal blind test ... Read more ›
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Lam Research says advanced packaging semiconductor Malaysia is the realistic near-term play, not front-end fabrication Memory shortages, panel-level packaging and photonics are reshaping what chipmakers actually need from the region right now Malaysia keeps talking about the front end. The fabs, the wafer fabrication, the IC design–the high-capital, high-prestige work that Taiwan and South Korea ... Read more ›
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China’s semiconductor self-sufficiency ambitions are tested by new silicon wafer target. Jensen Huang says Nvidia’s China market share has hit zero. Beijing moves to fill the gap. China’s semiconductor self-sufficiency drive has a new headline number. According to an exclusive report by Nikkei Asia published on May 5, China is targeting more than 70% of ... Read more ›
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Malaysia semiconductor front-end ambitions met the reality of global fab investment on Day 1 of SEMICON SEA 2026 SEMI’s president put a number on Southeast Asia’s share of the next fab wave. Malaysia’s minister couldn’t yet say how many his country expects to land The global semiconductor industry is heading toward US$2 trillion in annual ... Read more ›
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MAS met Singapore bank chiefs over AI cyber risks linked to Anthropic’s Mythos. CSA urged Singapore infrastructure owners to review cyber risks as the EU and US assess AI model risks. MAS convened the chief executives of major financial institutions in Singapore to discuss measures against AI-related cyber threats following the limited release of Anthropic’s ... Read more ›
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Malaysia’s semiconductor talent shortfall puts pressure on the country’s value chain ambitions as SEMICON SEA 2026 opens in KL today A tenfold gap between engineer supply and industry demand, and new Employment Pass rules arriving in June, are complicating an otherwise strong investment story The global semiconductor industry is on the cusp of crossing US$1 ... Read more ›
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AirTrunk will invest MYR12 billion in two Johor data centres with over 280MW of IT load. JHB3 and JHB4 will lift AirTrunk’s Malaysia commitment to about MYR27 billion. AirTrunk plans to invest MYR12 billion, or about US$3 billion, to develop two new data centres in Malaysia as it expands its Johor platform. The new facilities, ... Read more ›
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China ordered Meta to unwind its US$2 billion-plus Manus AI acquisition. The Manus case adds risk to cross-border AI deals involving China-founded companies. Chinese regulators have ordered Meta to unwind its acquisition of AI startup Manus, a company founded in China and headquartered in Singapore, under Beijing’s foreign investment national security review mechanism. The National ... Read more ›
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Author: Ruiguo Lai, regional sales director Asia, Kong. Agentic AI is experiencing rapid advancements in the APAC region. But with evolution also comes great risk. Without unified visibility and control of Agentic AI, security gaps emerge, costs spiral, and compliance becomes impossible to verify. According to Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI ... Read more ›
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Huawei’s first AI incubation centre outside China lands in Malaysia, cementing the country’s position in the company’s global AI strategy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s remarks at the launch were less a speech and more a Malaysia AI sovereignty statement–and that distinction matters There is a version of yesterday’s Huawei AI Lab and Innovation Centre launch ... Read more ›
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DeepSeek launches V4 for Huawei AI chips. Targets long-context agent tasks. DeepSeek launched a preview version of its V4 artificial intelligence model on Friday, with the Chinese startup adapting the system for Huawei chip technology, according to Reuters. The release is a closer technical link between DeepSeek and Huawei after DeepSeek’s earlier V3 and R1 ... Read more ›
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