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🔲 Malaysia Launches First Homegrown Edge AI Chip
SkyeChip has revealed the MARS1000, Malaysia’s first edge AI processor, signaling the nation’s growing ambitions in tech. While not as powerful as NVIDIA chips, it advances Malaysia’s presence in AI hardware. The country is also tightening export rules amid U.S.-China tensions. A national AI office backs its broader AI push.

🛡️ AI Browsers Face Prompt Injection Security Risks
Researchers warn that agentic AI-powered browsers are vulnerable to prompt injection—attacks that use crafted language, not code, to hijack browser actions. As these systems gain autonomy, they risk executing hidden commands from malicious content. While firms like Perplexity race to patch flaws, experts urge caution and stricter input controls.

🕹️ Salesforce Builds AI ‘Flight Simulator’ for Enterprises
Salesforce unveiled CRMArena-Pro, a “digital twin” simulation platform to stress-test AI agents in real-world business scenarios. With 95% of AI pilots failing to reach production, the tool aims to boost reliability by simulating messy enterprise dynamics. New benchmarks also assess agents for accuracy, cost, trust, and sustainability.

👨‍🏫 U.S. Expands AI Literacy Efforts Through Workforce Grants
The U.S. Department of Labor is urging states to use Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) funds to boost AI literacy among American workers. Backed by a Trump-era executive order, the new guidance promotes AI training through youth and adult employment programs. Officials say foundational AI skills will unlock future-ready jobs.

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📊 MARKET PULSE

NVIDIA Delivers Record Quarter, but China Trade Tensions Signal Turbulence Ahead

NVIDIA just posted another record-breaking quarter, but the numbers don’t tell the whole story. Behind the revenue surge lie export restrictions, missed forecasts, and growing doubts about whether AI demand can keep up. → Continue reading here.

🏗️ INFRASTRUCTURE

AI's Building Spree: How Data Centers Are Powering the Economy

The AI gold rush isn’t just inflating tech stocks—it’s driving real economic growth through an explosion in infrastructure spending. Companies are set to pour $375 billion into AI-related construction this year, with data centers alone outpacing office building investments, according to UBS and Dodge data.

This wave is sustaining jobs and demand across construction, power, and materials, even as most AI tools have yet to prove profitable. The momentum recalls the telecom bubble of the early 2000s, only this time, the foundations are deeper, the investors broader, and the risks more dispersed. → Read the full article here.

♻️ RECYCLING

AI Robots Are Learning to Dismantle Your Phone, And It’s a Big Deal for E-Waste

AI-powered robots are finally tackling one of recycling’s toughest challenges: taking apart old electronics. With only 22% of global e-waste recycled, new disassembly systems from Apple, Microsoft, and others aim to recover precious materials like gold, cobalt, and lithium more efficiently, without the contamination caused by traditional crushing methods.

At Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute, researchers are building robots that can identify and dismantle everything from dusty PCs to solar panels using AI and online manuals. It’s a high-tech answer to a growing $80B waste problem, and a potential lifeline for a planet buried in dead devices. → Read the full article here.

🔢 MODELS

Brain-Inspired AI Outsmarts ChatGPT at Reasoning, With Just a Fraction of the Parameters

A new AI model called the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM), developed by Singapore-based startup Sapient, has outperformed top-tier LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude in a leading AGI benchmark. Modeled on the brain’s layered processing of information, HRM achieved higher scores with just 27 million parameters—far fewer than the billions used by conventional models.

Unlike standard chain-of-thought approaches, HRM breaks down reasoning tasks through two modules working in tandem, emulating how humans plan and compute. Early tests show it solving Sudoku and mazes with uncanny efficiency—but its biggest leap may lie in doing more with less. → Read the full paper here.

🛰️ NEWS

What Else is Happening

🎬 Google Vids Gets AI Avatars: Google’s video editor now adds lifelike AI avatars and launches a consumer version, aiming to make pro-style video creation as simple as slides.

💰 Bench IQ Lands $5.3M to Decode Judges: The legal AI startup helps litigators predict how judges think, aiming to give lawyers an edge where it matters most—in the courtroom.

🚨 Salesloft Breach Exposes Salesforce Data: Hackers exploited Drift's AI chat integration to steal OAuth tokens, hitting hundreds of Salesforce orgs and possibly laying groundwork for broader supply chain attacks.

🌪️ Google’s AI Outperforms in Hurricane Forecasting: Weather Lab beat top models predicting Hurricane Erin’s path and strength—signaling a major shift for AI in storm tracking.

💸 Swarm Network Raises $13M for Decentralized AI: With NFT-based agent licenses and strategic backing, Swarm aims to verify offchain data onchain—fueling the rise of crypto-native AI agents.

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