Daily brief for 11 September 2026
Anthropic said it disrupted a commercial election-manipulation platform that used its Claude models to target voters across Malaysia, and MCMC denied any involvement while examining the report. Separately, the Digital Ministry named former AirAsia chief executive Aireen Omar as chair of AI Malaysia Bhd, the lead agency for the national AI agenda.
US AI firm Anthropic said it disrupted a commercial election-manipulation platform that used its Claude models to target voters across Malaysia, The Edge reported on 11 September. According to Anthropic's threat report, the network comprised roughly 1,000 fake X accounts, a fake news outlet and fabricated dossiers, and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) denied any involvement.
The Digital Ministry has appointed Aireen Omar, former chief executive of AirAsia, as chair of the national agency AI Malaysia Bhd, according to a ministry statement reported by The Edge on 11 September. Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo said AI Malaysia will be the lead agency coordinating the national AI agenda.
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