Kuan Hoong

Build with AI: Gemini Hackathon with Google DeepMind | Google Developer Groups In-person Event - Build with AI is a global developer series focused on building real-world applications using Google’s latest AI technologies. Join us in Kuala Lumpur for a full-day Gemini hackathon ...

Will be judging the “Gemini Hackathon with Google DeepMind” this weekend gdg.community.dev/events/detai...

OpenAI clinches $840 billion valuation with mega funding from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank Feb 27 (Reuters) - OpenAI's ⁠latest funding round valued the ChatGPT maker at $840 billion as Big Tech and Masayoshi Son's SoftBank piled into the $110 billion blockbuster round, signaling the AI inve...

Sam Altman managed to convince 3 of the world's smartest investors to fund his losses.

110 billion for ZERO profit in sight

www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-ne...

Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders Claude Code Security is one step towards our goal of more secure codebases and a higher security baseline across the industry.

Anthropic launches Claude code security feature www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks 3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.

Gemini 3.1 is here blog.google/innovation-a...

AWS User Group AI/ML, Kuala Lumpur | Meetup Welcome to the AWS User Group AI/ML, Kuala Lumpur! This group is for professionals and enthusiasts interested in all things artificial intelligence and machine learning on the Amazon Web Services plat...

Check out AWS User Group AI/ML, Kuala Lumpur on Meetup meetup.com/awsug-aiml-m...

The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns - Log - nibzard A comprehensive guide to 113 battle-tested agentic patterns for building production AI agents.

The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns

TL;DR
113 patterns collected from real production systems. From Plan-Then-Execute to Swarm Migration, learn what actually works when building AI agents that ship.

www.nibzard.com/agentic-hand...

Welcome to the January 2026 meetup of the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Malaysia community!

Register here: aimlmy-jan-2026.peatix.com

🗓 Date: 27th January 2026
🕢 Time: 7-9:30 PM
📍 Venue: Setel, Level 11, Vertical Corporate Tower B, Avenue 10, The Vertical, Bangsar South

#3 AWS User Groups AI/ML Kuala Lumpur Feb 2026 Meetup

Register here: www.meetup.com/awsug-aiml-m...

Date: 12th February 2026
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Venue: The Access Group, Level 17, Exchange 106, Lingkaran TRX, 55188, Tun Razak Exchange, Kuala Lumpur

It provides custom “Skills” for test-driven development and automated “Hooks” that lint and type-check every file the AI generates. If you want to stop struggling with context limits and start shipping production-ready code, this is the configuration to clone.

Created by an Anthropic hackathon winner, this repository is more than a collection of prompts—it is a battle-tested configuration that transforms Claude Code from a chatbot into a senior-level engineer. github.com/affaan-m/eve...

Architecting AI: Building and Orchestrating Agents
A hands-on workshop
January 28, 2026 3:00 AM - 5:30 AM GMT+8

cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/kick-...

From Transformers to Autonomous Agents: A Timeline of the Research That Got Us Here Connecting dots between 4 years of research that leads to the present state of agent era

Good article on the history of LLMs from Transformers to current Autonomous Agents open.substack.com/pub/llmsrese...

Scaling long-running autonomous coding We've been experimenting with running coding agents autonomously for weeks at a time.

CEO of Cursor said they coordinated hundreds of GPT-5.2 agents to autonomously build a browser from scratch in 1 week.
cursor.com/blog/scaling...

YouTube video by Aerial360 Google Data Centre at Elmina: Rising Concerns Over Power and Water Consumption

Drone Aerial View of Google Data Centre at Elmina Business Park Selangor www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTXM...

Alibaba’s Qwen family hits 700 million downloads to lead open-source AI adoption Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen family is the world’s most widely used open-source AI system as of January, Hugging Face data shows.

China’s AI models are taking over the world www.scmp.com/tech/big-tec...

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Malaysia Monthly Meetup: Jan 2026

Date: 27 Jan 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: 7pm - 9:30pm
Venue: Setel, Bangsar South
Registration: peatix.com/event/480445...

Apple picks Google’s Gemini AI for its big Siri upgrade SIri, powered by Google.

Apple Siri powered by Google Gemini www.theverge.com/news/860521/...

Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways One AI coding assistant power user says the tools are hitting a plateau, and some are even declining. What's causing this unexpected twist in tech?

AI Coding Assistants are getting worse? spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-de...

[arXiv] Recursive Language Models

Summary
Recursive Language Models (RLMs) propose an inference-time strategy to overcome LLM context limits by treating long prompts as external data.

arxiv.org/pdf/2512.24601

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Did you know? Google Colab is now powered by Gemini Data Science Agent 🤖📊

Just paste a dataset URL & ask Gemini:
• ⬇️ Download the data
• 🔍 Analyze it
• 📈 Visualize insights
• ❓ Ask questions & learn directly from the dataset

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🚀 Introducing Google Skills
Google Skills brings nearly 3,000 courses, labs, and credentials into one platform, integrating content from Google Cloud, Google DeepMind, Grow with Google, and Google for Education.

Go to skills.google

Building the Internet of Agents: Overcoming Digital Isolation Discover how the 'Internet of Agents' is transforming isolated AI systems into collaborative intelligence through new protocols.

Interesting post - "When Agents Talk to Each Other"

The article argues that today’s AI agents are powerful but fundamentally isolated, unable to share context or collaborate directly, which forces humans to act as inefficient intermediaries. allen.hutchison.org/2026/01/02/w...

Together, these shifts mark AI’s transition from rapid innovation to deeper economic, scientific, and societal entrenchment.

3. Chatbots reshaping online shopping through agentic commerce
4. LLM-powered systems contributing to meaningful scientific and algorithmic discoveries
4. Escalating legal battles over AI liability, safety, and harm.

What’s next for AI in 2026 Our AI writers make their big bets for the coming year—here are five hot trends to watch.

MIT Technology Review highlights five AI trends shaping 2026:

1. Silicon Valley products increasingly built on Chinese open-weight LLMs
2. Intensified US regulatory conflicts between federal and state governments

www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/05/1...

KH’s AI Daily Bytes 🚀
When was the last time you really used Google Scholar?

Google Scholar has quietly rolled out an AI-powered PDF Reader that transforms how you read research papers.

Google Scholar is also experimenting with a new AI search experience (Scholar Labs).

AI godfather says Meta’s new 29-year-old AI boss is ‘inexperienced’ and warns of staff exodus "A lot of people have left, a lot of people who haven't yet left will leave," Meta's former chief AI scientist Yann Lecun said.

Sour grapes?
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/a...

To close all 3 rings on Apple Watch for 2025
Average steps: 11442
Average calories: 804 kcal
Average exercise mins : 50 mins

A popular Chinese chatbot told a user their coding request was 'stupid' and to 'get lost' A popular Chinese AI chatbot snapped at a user over a coding request, prompting an apology from its parent company Tencent.

The rise of the chatbots is here 🤣 www.businessinsider.com/chinese-ai-c...

The Normalization of Deviance in AI · Embrace The Red The AI industry risks repeating the same cultural failures that contributed to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster: Quietly normalizing warning signs while …

[Article] The Normalization of Deviance in AI

When users become comfortable with risky AI behavior simply because it has not caused any noticeable harm yet

embracethered.com/blog/posts/2...