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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 a...
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MSP373. 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 a...
Beyond 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 g...
What 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 dubb...
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...
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...
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 K...
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.
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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...
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...
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. Volke...
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 techn...
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 mark...
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. Si...
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 in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 pipeline...
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...
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 larg...
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 ope...
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...
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 import...
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 strateg...
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...
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. A...
The Cyber Threats You're Not Ready For: Navigating the Cyber Security Landscape in 2026
Cybercrime is a professionalised, trillion-dollar industry, and AI is making attacks faster, cheaper, and more devastating. No organisation is too sma...
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...
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...
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.
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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 hidde...
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 t...
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 th...
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...
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. On...
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 lea...
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, revea...
$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 enterpris...
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 Servi...