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Tech Talk
by BFM Media
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 codes that many often would fear. Also find out what are some the latest consumer offerings like smartphones, drones, robots, cameras, video games that are best in the market and quirky insight to a mind of a digital pop culture technology advocater, Richard Bradbury.
Episodes
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MSP378. 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 that sprout from a single simple question: What is artificial intelligence? And examine the hypothetical possibilities of artificial…
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US 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 AI agents going rogue in the US. Is China having the same experience? Bloomberg Intelligence counts nearly 1,000 large language models…
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Spotting 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, and the banks to trace stolen funds faster, but the money still moves quickly. We get into: How mule networks work: Who owns these…
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MSP377 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 about the evolution of our brains, as well as opening pathways to treat conditions like ALS. Kishan’s lizard brain is put under the…
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Inside 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 just started a two-week public consultation on AI and personal data protection. It looks like we will soon have two pieces of AI…
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Deepfakes 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 trust? This technology, enabled by AI, is creating a much bigger problem for businesses, where a convincing face or voice could authorise a...
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MSP376. 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 farce. The bosses of AI companies are behaving more cartoonishly supervillain-like than anything Marvel or DC ever created. Where even their...
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Singapore'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 Director Country Head Singapore at Keenai Global, joins us to explain what stablecoins actually are and the tech required to build and run…
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MSP375. 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 to get onboard or be left behind. Today Matt and Kishan ask, how can you be left behind by a technology that wants to replace you. And…
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If 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 coding, entry-level developers may get fewer chances to build those skills. If we are no longer training engineers through the work AI can now…
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Can 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 in production. As companies give AI more autonomy, how should they approach governance, accountability and risk? See...
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MSP374. 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 the fences of the park. Is that freedom or captivity? That’s one model of our future in a world where AI takes all the jobs. A species…
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Powering 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 fastest-growing digital infrastructure hubs. Ch'ng Eng Yong tells us how the tech behind power and cooling systems is changing, and what it…
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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 about his dating habits. What connects it all is a desire for real human experiences. Interactions that automation can’t replace. Except the sandbox bit. That’s...
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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 global innovation will come from. But beyond the headline names, what else is hot in China tech right now that hasn’t caught broader attention yet?...
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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 dubbed this "Skynet Day." We look at what this means for cyber resilience from two angles: Professor Simon Chesterman from the National University of...
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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. For social media that journey took a decade. With AI it’s seemed virtually instantaneous. But is that down to the perceived dangers of AI...
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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 breached. Azhar Adnan and Nagendran Balakrishnan from Time Enterprise join us to unpack why connectivity, cloud, and cybersecurity can no...
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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 join us to talk about AI's real impact on Malaysia's creative industry, from AI-influenced music production to the line between boosting...
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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. They’re the agents of change that the workplace needs. Matt and Kishan forget the age indifference to take a look at a generation that is...
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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 businesses face increasing pressure to improve efficiency, visibility and operational resilience, a different approach is emerging. Rather than...
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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 superfan. What motivates them, how they form and more importantly, how companies harness those passions for profit. Superfans and 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 Cloudflare joins us to unpack the hidden fault lines inside organisations, from legacy systems to shadow AI, and why cyber resilience…
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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 bring you some of the amazing stories that are shaping the future of our world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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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 projected to grow 576% over the next decade, the question remains: can we trust the algorithms and systems powering these devices? We…
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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 theory and the idea that our reality could be a corner of someone else’s really complex MMO game. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
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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 institutions that don't adapt may not survive. We discuss: How AI agents acting on behalf of customers could wipe out a significant chunk of global...
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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 to anticipate. We take a look at the technology behind national security capabilities now and for the future, and what Malaysia needs to...
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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 environmental protection. Conflicts over freshwater resources. The strange shape of the battle between the dollar and crypto. And the private...
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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 does it take to build a workforce that global buyers can trust? Dr. Ranee Ramya from the Global Electronics Association tells us about...
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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. Fortunately, the future isn’t ordained and Matt and Kishan separate the warnings from the inevitabilities in the first of a two part series…
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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 and the Securities Commission introduces streamlined guidelines, how do we distinguish between genuine technical utility and market...
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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 been replaced with friction and rage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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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 language models, the mega-IPOs of SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are bringing new technologies and innovations to the forefront. What do they...
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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 treatment options for cancer sufferers with aggressive or non-responsive tumors, and delivering them an Arizona punch. In Spain…
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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 risk, and what can businesses do about it? We discuss: What It Is: Why human risk has overtaken technology gaps as the number one…
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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, what does it actually take to use AI as a real business edge? Tune In To Find Out An Adoption Gap — Why AI numbers look impressive on paper,...
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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 could set your company on the path to failure. But the bucket doesn’t empty there. With the spread of slopaganda and bit-driven social...
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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 more like a glorified search bar. Prashant Kumar, Founder of Entermind, discusses what it takes to build a customer service bot that...
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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 unlikely world where reinforcement learning, sycophancy and language bias are shaping the AI models of the future. As we head into the agentic AI...
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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 a target. Tune in to find out how the cyber threat landscape has fundamentally shifted and what businesses must do to stay ahead. Learn…
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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 rest of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) remains stuck in a pre-AI bottleneck, resulting in marginal gains to actual throughput.…
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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 officially broken its exclusivity with Microsoft but is beginning to show signs of a user-acquisition stumble, just as Anthropic nears a staggering...
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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 seemingly intractable issues here on planet earth, are missions to the moon a waste of resources that could be better used elsewhere?…
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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 licensing traps of stock photos, businesses are unknowingly sitting on, or infringing upon, massive intellectual property (IP) risks. Ong Johnson...
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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 fastest recorded intrusion occurring in a staggering 27 seconds. Fabio Fratucello, Field CTO World Wide at CrowdStrike, joins Tech Talk to break...
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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 and slop; the cheap, displosable machine-generated content that is increasingly dominating our social and streaming platforms. And ask a...
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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 technological promise and financial reality. Duncan Stewart, Director of TMT Research, Deloitte Canada, explains why the global CapEx surge...
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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 and Lo Khai Yi of Halim Hong & Quek join Tech Talk to explain why "simple negligence" is legally indistinguishable from a hacker attack,...
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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 envision a world where AI and automation make work obsolete and there’s wealth for all. Is this a social vision for a better future or just...
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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 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 codes that many often would fear. Also find out what are some the latest consumer offerings like smartphones, drones, robots, cameras, video games that are best in the market and quirky insight to a mind of a digital pop culture technology advocater, Richard Bradbury.
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