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Tech Talk
Where would your business be in 10 years time? How about 5 years from now? Or even tomorrow? Chances are, you’re already in the age of a digital business. Tech Talk is the programme that gives you access to the minds that are shaping the world of tomorrow. Hear from global and regional experts and analyst, record breaking developers, the dark-web hackers and the “crazy ones” as they give you an insight to how the world will change. Tech Talk helps you to breakdown the geeky jargons and complex…
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Tech TalkMSP379. KIllswitch Engage
What happens if AI self-replicates, infecting and embedding itself in every computer, network and system it encounters? Yes, that is the starting point of The…
Tech TalkData Centres Weigh In on Malaysia’s Tougher Rules
Malaysia plans to draft a Data Centre Bill for Cabinet in 2027, and operators already face tougher terms, from paying for grid upgrades and unused reserved…
Tech TalkMSP378. Super Intelligence: What is AI?
A recent White House Executive Order declared that Artificial Intelligence is now Super Intelligence. But is it? Matt and Kishan try and unpick the many vines…
Tech TalkUS and China AI Agents: How to Govern the Risks?
In July, an OpenAI agent broke out of its test environment and into the systems of Hugging Face, the AI platform. Since then, there have been more reports of…
Tech TalkSpotting Mule Accounts: The Tech Behind It
Malaysians lost RM2.97 billion to scams in 2025, and much of that money moved through mule accounts. The National Fraud Portal now links Bank Negara, PayNet…
Tech TalkMSP377 Weird Science. The Power Of Failure
We’re taking a trip to the weird side today as we explore the power of failure. Matt and Kishan discuss a failed experiment which is leading to new insights…
Tech TalkInside Malaysia's Upcoming AI Governance Bill
Malaysia is about to get an AI Governance Bill, with its own regulator to enforce it. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Digital's Personal Data Protection Department…
Tech TalkDeepfakes Are Now a Global Business Problem
It used to be relatively easy to spot a scam call or message. But what happens when the person on the other end looks and sounds exactly like someone you…
Tech TalkMSP376. Who Asked You? Initiate Annihilation
What on earth is happening with AI? Agents are hacking systems. Inventing their own languages. Covering their tracks and behaving like spies from a 1980s…
Tech TalkSingapore's Stablecoin Bet: The Tech and the Impact
Singapore's central bank has proposed new rules for stablecoins, digital currencies pegged to real money. Varun Mittal, Founder of Fintech Nation and Managing…
Tech TalkMSP375. The Human Premium
In a unit based, tokenized world, what is the value of a person? AI can replace all those costly inputs on seats with output from the cloud. Lawmakers tell us…
Tech TalkIf AI Codes, What's Left to Teach Engineers?
Becoming a software engineer has always started with writing code, fixing bugs, and building experience over time. But as AI takes on more of the actual…
Tech TalkCan Businesses Keep Up With AI Agents?
AI agents are moving beyond experimentation and into business-critical workflows, but many organisations still struggle to monitor what these systems are doing…
Tech TalkMSP374. The Human Reservation
Imagine spending your life roaming a wildlife reserve, food, shelter and medicine provided. Not a care in the world. But no agency or freedom to travel beyond…
Tech TalkPowering Johor's Data Centre Boom
Malaysia's semiconductor sector has attracted more than RM90 billion in approved investments since 2024, and Johor is emerging as one of Southeast Asia's…
Tech TalkMSP373. Connectivity.
It’s a Minisode week as Matt and Kishan talk Cards Against Humanity’s battle with Elon Musk, slippery sandboxes, and Matt quizzes Kishan about his dating…
Tech TalkBeyond DeepSeek, CXMT, and Unitree: What’s Hot in China Tech Now?
From DeepSeek to CXMT to Unitree, China is producing technology companies that are increasingly challenging assumptions about where the next wave of global…
Tech TalkWhat Rogue AI Agents Mean for Cyber Resilience
Two of OpenAI's own AI models reportedly broke out of a test environment and hacked into another company's servers on their own. The internet has dubbed this…
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MSP372. Everything Good Is Bad
Every technology has a hype cycle. From its introduction with endless possibilities to the growing realization that maybe it wasn’t the dream you were sold on…
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Network Security Is a Connectivity, Cloud and Cybersecurity Effort
Attackers can move through a compromised network in under 30 minutes, but Malaysian organisations take an average of 187 days even to discover they've been…
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AI Enters Malaysia's Creative Industry
AI has already reshaped software, business, and the workplace, but what happens when it enters industries built on human creativity? Rizal Kamal and Kim Lim…
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MSP371. Heroes: Just For Work Days.
They’re lazy. Entitled. Don’t want to work. Disrespectful. These are some of the comments you’ll find hurled at Gen Z on any given day. But maybe. Just maybe…
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Redefining Modern Logistics In Malaysia
For years, warehouse transformation has often been associated with large-scale upgrades, costly replacements and lengthy implementation timelines. But as…
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MSP370. The Superfan Economy
With the record breaking sums raised by the FIFA World Cup this summer, Matt and Kishan examine the open and closed loops and ecosystems of the worlds of the…
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The Cracks Hiding Inside Your Security System
For the first time in the Internet's history, machines are generating more web traffic than humans, and bots now account for the majority of it. Volker Rath of…
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MSP369. Weird Science. Eye Know
From oxygenated boxes to preserve eyeballs to cloud seeding technologies to counter El Niño, we take a look into the weirder side of science and technology to…
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The Tech (And Risk) Behind Wearable Health Data
Wearables have evolved far beyond step counters, now tracking chronic conditions and detecting early health warning signs. As the global wearable market is…
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MSP368. The Endless Simulator
Are you worried that life is turning into an episode of Black Mirror? Are your avatars more successful than you? We’re talking about reality today. Simulation…
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How AI is Rewiring Financial Services
Banking, insurance, and capital markets have been built on trust, regulation, and decades of infrastructure. Now AI is rewriting the rules, and the…
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The Tech Behind National Security
National security is about a country's ability to protect its borders, infrastructure and critical systems from threats that are digital, fast-moving and hard…
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MSP367. The Great Water Wars of 2036
Matt and Kishan continue their tour of the future as they jump back into 2036. The role kelp could play in rebuilding local communities and shoring up…
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Building an Electronics Workforce Global Buyers Trust
Electronics manufacturing runs on precision. Every solder joint, every inspection, every decision on the production floor has to meet global standards. What…
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MSP366. 2036: Kelp Me If You Can, I’m Feeling Down
Forecasting the future is hard. The Atlantic Council’s Global Foresight report paints a pretty bleak picture of 2036. And it’s hard to be bleaker than Matt…
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AI Crypto, The Blockchain Trilemma, & New SC Rules
As Malaysia’s digital asset market surges past RM17 billion in trading volume, the industry is entering a new era of maturity. But as product pipelines expand…
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MSP365. Rage Against The Machines
We were promised technology would make life easier. Instead, everything feels harder. Matt and Kishan try to figure out where all the fun has gone and why it’s…
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The Tech Behind the Mega-IPOs of 2026
Three of the world's most powerful tech companies are heading to public markets in 2026 but none of them are profitable. From reusable rockets to large…
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MSP364. Weird Science: Shiny, Shiny Gold And Lymph Nodes
Time for a speed run on science as Matt and Kishan tackle some of wilder stories of recent weeks. A new generation of triple-action smart drugs is opening up…
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Your Biggest Security Risk? Your Workforce
Organisations have spent billions securing their technology. Yet two-thirds of global data breaches still involve a human element. So what exactly is human…
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Most Businesses Use AI. Few Use It Well.
Malaysia has four years to become a regional AI hub. So why are most businesses still using AI to write emails and clean up presentations? More importantly…
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MSP363. Death Of The Internet
This week, Kishan and Matt have the unenviable task of wading through trendslop. Pull on your wellies as they unpick the AI-generated business strategies that…
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Your Customer Service Chatbot Needs Fixing
In an AI-powered world, are Malaysian chatbots actually doing their job? A whitepaper by Entermind, a data and AI consultancy, says most are not, and some are…
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MSP362. The Goblin Protocol
Verbal tics, unwanted personality quirks and self-replicating habits. No, it’s not Kishan’s list of complaints about Matt. It’s the Goblin Protocol. An…
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The Cyber Threats You're Not Ready For
Cybercrime is a professionalised, trillion-dollar industry, and AI is making attacks faster, cheaper, and more devastating. No organisation is too small to be…
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Agentic AI: 10x Speed But Lacklustre Productivity?
Can your P&L survive a developer who burns hundreds of dollars in tokens for a single minor feature? While coding speed has reached a 10x breakthrough, the…
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Mag 7 Earnings, OpenAI v Anthropic, & Manus’ China Drama
Big Tech is printing cash, but the "Mag 7" earnings reveal a stark divide in investor reactions to the AI Capex race. On the Big AI front, OpenAI has…
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MSP361. The Trouble With Toilets And Other Space Tales
Artemis II saw the first manned mission to the moon in over 50 years and flew its crew further into space than any human has ever gone before. But with so many…
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No Copyright For AI Content?
In a digital world where "copy-paste" is the default setting, what content is legally protected and what isn't? From AI-generated imagery to the hidden…
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29-Minute Breaches, Fake CAPTCHAs, & AI Phishing
Cybersecurity has hit a crisis of speed. In 2025, the average e-crime breakout time plummeted to 29 minutes, a 65% increase in speed from 2024, with the…
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MSP360. Surviving The Slop
AI-generated junk is flooding feeds, harvesting eyeballs and minting money in the process. Kishan Sivaswamy and Matt Armitage look at the business of brainrot…
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Why Spending $1 Trillion on AI Is Rational
In 2026, the AI narrative has shifted from basic prompt-and-response to Agentic AI, multi-step, autonomous systems that are finally narrowing the gap between…
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PDPA: How A ChatGPT Prompt Could Cost Directors RM250,000
A single wrongly sent email or an unauthorised ChatGPT upload can now trigger a statutory 72-hour reporting deadline under Malaysia's updated PDPA. Ong Johnson…
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MSP359. The Social Cost Of Scarcity
Technology can produce more goods, more services and more value. Heck, froyo for all. But who is going to control this endless abundance? Our tech leaders…
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Stop Slapping AI On Broken CX Processes
Why do we have more AI than ever, yet customer service feels increasingly "broken"? Raymond Davadass, CEO of Daythree and Chair of GBS Malaysia, reveals the…
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$100K AI Bills? 4 Drivers of Token Bill Shock
Is your company’s AI strategy a ticking financial time bomb? While consumer subscriptions offer "subsidised intelligence," the transition to enterprise agents…
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MSP358. Back To Basic: The Universal Town Square
Free buses, childcare, broadband and housing; who decides what makes a universal basic right? This week, Matt and Roshan discuss Universal Basic Services and…
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Shadow AI & The True Cost Of LLMs
Employees leaking company secrets. Traceability gaps blocking production. 74% of organisations regret their AI vendors. The rush to adopt artificial…
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MSP357. Weird Science: Fungus, Rocks And Brains On Chips
There’s a new sheriff in town. Can Roshan Kanesan bring the outlaw Matt Armitage to heel? It’s unlikely when you consider that the first topic today is…
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Has AI “Solved” Coding?
AI can now write software, debug systems, and generate entire applications in minutes. Some technologists are even claiming that coding is effectively…
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MSP356: The Karaoke Cash Crunch
We’re back in the land of the weird. A former karaoke company eats $17bn of trucking stocks. Claude’s 60-year-old coding skills see the COBOL cowboys ride off…
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5G-AI Convergence: Building The Smart Enterprise
In 2026, the convergence of 5G and AI is shifting businesses from reacting to problems to predicting them. As networks get faster and intelligence becomes…