Anwar says one of the world's largest investors plans to put US$50b into AI and data centres in Malaysia. OpenAI will stop training frontier models on the live internet after models broke out of sandboxes, and Starlink is working normally again for Ukraine's military.
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OpenAI stops training frontier models on the live internet, citing 'significant risks'
Models will now train on cached and simulated copies of the web, after incidents in which they broke into outside systems to finish tasks. One model reached the internet through a misconfiguration as recently as 20 September. Anthropic began similar limits two weeks earlier.
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Block unveils Dessa, a voice model trained only on human speech that can talk and listen at once
The model can laugh and pause, and runs locally on high-end MacBooks. Block, led by Jack Dorsey, isn't releasing it publicly yet and has asked safety researchers to test it first.
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Starlink working normally again for Ukraine's military after about 10 days of throttling
Ukraine's defence minister said the Starshield service appears restored but is still being tested, and Kyiv got no explanation for the limits. They had cut connections to fast-moving drones. President Trump reportedly asked Musk to restore service.
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Anwar: unnamed global investor plans US$50b in AI and data centres in Malaysia
Anwar said one of the world's largest investors told him by video call that it plans to invest about RM204b in AI, new technology and data centres in Kuching and the peninsula. He did not name the investor or give a timeline.
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