Malaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners for power theft, which cost a state energy company ~$1.1B over five years
Cracking down on illegal Bitcoin mining gangs has become a cat-and-mouse game in Malaysia. — In Malaysia's illegal crypto mining hotspots, the hunt begins in the sky.
Vantage Data Centers raised $1.6B from GIC and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority to expand in APAC, including the acquisition of a Malaysian data center campus
Bloomberg :
Crypto and tech entrepreneurs are attending Network School, founded by Balaji Srinivasan in Forest City, Malaysia, to test his concepts about the Network State
Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg : LinkedIn: Anders Melin and Ryan Weeks Forums: r/Buttcoin and Slashdot LinkedIn: Anders Melin : Much has been written about Forest City, the troubled moonshot $100 billion dev...
Malaysian chip designer SkyeChip unveils the MARS1000, the country's first edge AI processor, as Malaysia seeks to climb the global semiconductor value chain
Bloomberg :
Malaysian startup Zetrix unveils NurAI, a chatbot for Muslims that it built using similar techniques to DeepSeek's V3, and plans AI avatars of Islamic scholars
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
How Chinese AI companies bypass US chip restrictions by transporting hard drives with AI training data to Malaysian data centers housing advanced Nvidia chips
Engineers carry data to countries where Nvidia chips are available, frustrating Washington's aims
How Chinese AI companies bypass US chip restrictions by transporting hard drives with AI training data to Malaysian data centers housing advanced Nvidia chips
Engineers carry data to countries where Nvidia chips are available, frustrating Washington's aims
Investors see opportunities in Malaysian tech stocks amid a shift to cheaper AI models like DeepSeek, as the country's chip sector faces US export rules
Norman Goh / Nikkei Asia :
Malaysia says X and Google haven't applied for a new social media license; X cites under 8M Malaysian users, while Google disputes YouTube's classification
Ram Anand / Bloomberg :
A look at chip design companies like Oppstar that aim to push Malaysia, the world's sixth-largest semiconductor exporter, to the higher end of the value chain
Former Intel engineers attempt to push Penang to higher end of value chain — PENANG, Malaysia — When chip design company Oppstar listed … X: @tsubasa_nikkei , @nikkeiasia , and @imnormgoh . LinkedIn...