Tech Talk

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 more about:The AI Advantage for Hackers: How AI is turbocharging phishing, social engineering, and vulnerability discoveryCybercrime as a Service: Why a mid-size Malaysian company faces the same threats as a global bank, using the same tools and techniques.The Mythos Wake-Up Call: How an AI platform identified decades-old zero-day vulnerabilities that had gone undetected, and why this changes everything.Geopolitics and Cyber Risk: Why conflicts and technology bifurcation are making vendor selection an increasingly strategic and politicised decision.Building True Resilience: Why survival now depends less on preventing attacks and more on how swiftly an enterprise can respond and recover.Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow's Business Today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.Idan Zalzberg, Chief Technology Officer at Agoda, joins Tech Talk to breakdown the reality of agentic workflows, the danger of "AI slop," and why the next generation of engineers must stop typing and start managing.Tune In To Find Out:The Tokenised Billing Trap: Why frontier models can burn hundreds of dollars on "reasonably small" tasks and the critical lack of governance tools to cap spending.The 10x Productivity Myth: Why "vanity metrics" like lines of code are failing and why we must pivot to PR Throughput to find the real SDLC bottlenecks.The Managerial Mindset: Why developers must move away from single-tasking and learn to direct "teams of agents" working in parallel via the cloud.Turns per MR: A new metric to measure the "friction" between humans and AI, designed to prevent a flood of low-quality "AI slop."The Pilot-to-Scale Strategy: How to secure C-suite trust by choosing "low-hanging fruit" with short ROI before pursuing long-term AI strategic investments.Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow's Business Today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 $900 billion valuation. Meanwhile, a geopolitical earthquake has hit the private markets: China has ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion Manis acquisition, a deal that is legally and logistically "more than done".Kevin Brockland of Indelible Ventures joins Tech Talk to discuss the market's winners and losers. We unpack why Alphabet is the "sleeper" winner of the AI race, the regulatory shift in Beijing that just killed the "Singapore-washing" exit strategy for Chinese founders, and which companies will be left standing when the AI bubble finally pops.Tune In To Find Out:The ROI Pressure Cooker: Why current AI spending mirrors the fiber optic bubble of the late 90s, and who survives if the bubble pops.The Manus Shock: Inside the $2 billion unwinding ordered by Beijing for Meta to undo an acquisition, creating a legal and logistical nightmare for relocated staff.OpenAI’s Performance Gap: Why internal concerns are mounting as the company misses acquisition targets while Microsoft relinquishes exclusivity.The Claude Surge: Why users are ditching OpenAI for Anthropic, and the looming commoditisation of foundational models.Alphabet’s Distribution Edge: Why Google Workspace and talent density make Alphabet the most dominant long-term player.Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow's Business Today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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? Matt and Kishan examine the case for space exploration, manned missions and look at the true ROI of space travel.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 and Lo Khai Yi from Halim Hong & Quek join Tech Talk to discuss the current state of Malaysian copyright law, break down why the "IP by Design" philosophy is the only way to protect your business, and the legal grey areas of AI-generated content, which current looks to be not a copyright.Tune in to find out:The AI Ownership Crisis: Why content purely generated by Gemini or ChatGPT might lack legal protection, and the "untested" threshold for human authorship in AI-assisted work.Idea vs. Expression: The critical legal boundary, why you can’t copyright a "good idea," but you can copyright the second it’s written down.The Enforcement Playbook: When to send a C&D—and when takedowns actually workThe Hidden Risk: Why “anything online is free” could cost your businessThe IP-by-Design Strategy: How to protect assets before they’re exposedThe Scraping Shield: How digital creators can use robots.txt as a technical signal to opt-out of AI model training.Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow's Business Today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 down how "cloud-conscious" adversaries are exploiting trusted identity flows and supply chains to bypass traditional defenses. From a 563% surge in malicious fake CAPTCHA pages to the targeting of Malaysian logistics, we audit the tactics of nation-state actors and the necessary shift toward autonomous, agentic security operations.Tune In To Find Out:The 29-Minute Average: Why the speed of e-crime increased 65% from 2024, with the fastest recorded breach taking only 27 seconds.The CAPTCHA Trap: Why fake verification pages saw a 563% surge as a way to trick users into executing code without triggering malware alerts.AI-Powered Phishing: Why AI-generated social engineering is now more successful and authentic than human-written lures.Identity as a Key: Why 82% of detections are now malware-free, as adversaries use "digital keys" to log in undetected.Targeting Malaysia: Why the global (including Malaysia) logistics sector saw an 85% spike in attacks, alongside a 30% increase in telecommunications.China Nexus Threats: Why nation-state adversaries in APAC are shifting toward long-term intellectual property theft rather than quick ransomware gains.Cloud Consciousness: Why intrusions into cloud environments rose 37% as adversaries specialize in abusing SAS integrations.Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow's Business Today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 simple question: can we survive the slop?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 to $1 trillion is a rational enterprise play, driven by "token maxing" and the race for sovereign compute.From the "Search Cliff" threatening web referral traffic to the "RAMageddon" memory shortage fueled by a Persian Gulf helium crisis, we dive into the high-stakes forces reshaping the regional and global tech landscape.Tune In To Find Out:The Narrowing Gap: Why the investment-to-revenue ratio is dropping from 100x to 10x as AI monetisation hits the $100 billion mark.Agentic vs. Generative: The move from simple prompts to autonomous, multi-modal code-writing systems for enterprise optimisation.Token Maxing: Why software engineers are now burning $250,000 a year in tokens to drive a 5x to 10x productivity gain.The Search Cliff: Why media and retail sites are facing a 50% to 80% sudden drop in referral traffic as AI overviews take over search.Sovereign AI: Why nations are spending $100 billion on local data centers to prevent total dependency on US and Chinese infrastructure.RAMageddon: Why memory prices have spiked 400% and why the shortage could last up to five years.The Helium Factor: How the conflict-driven force majeure on Persian Gulf helium is threatening Asian chip and memory manufacturing.Jevons Paradox: Why making AI tokens cheaper will actually lead to an explosion in consumption, not a reduction.Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow's Business Today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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, the RM250,000 fines facing directors, and why a fire drill for your data is no longer optional.Tune In To Learn More About:The "Output" Doctrine: Why the law disregards your intent, whether it's a sophisticated ransomware hit or a misplaced paper form, the legal breach is defined solely by the effect on personal data.The 72-Hour Clock: The strict timeline for assessing "significant harm" and why internal delays for board meetings or procurement can lead to a "love letter" (investigation) from the Personal Data Protection Department.The LLM Leak: The hidden risk of employees using unpaid, consumer-grade AI chatbots to process client lists, effectively training global models on your private data.Director Accountability: How failing to notify regulators doesn't just hurt the company; it exposes individual directors to personal liability and potential two-year imprisonment.The Multi-Jurisdictional Logistical Nightmare: Managing live updates and conflicting timelines across APAC, Europe, and the US during a global breach.Simulations vs. Policies: Why everyone "has a plan until they get punched in the face", the critical need for annual breach simulations over static manuals.Data Processing Agreements (DPA): The "10-out-of-10" requirement to mandate that third-party suppliers return or destroy data once a relationship ends.Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow’s Business Today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 power and influence in a shinier wrapper?Matt and Roshan unpack the dream, the delusion, and the social math behind these notions of post-work abundance.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 "fragmentation trap" sabotaging large-scale operations. From why a misplaced comma can paralyse a bot to the 12-week design rule for AI deployment, we unpack why the industry is ditching "labour arbitrage" for a high-stakes play on data intelligence and human empathy.Tune In To Find Out:The Orchestration Gap: Why having a "beautiful faucet" of technology is useless if your internal systems aren't talking to each other (and the airport chatbot story that proves it).The "Comma" Crisis: Why AI isn't a magic wand and how an uncleaned knowledge base leads to "hallucinations" and customer frustration.Human-at-the-Right-Time: The specific moment in a customer journey (like lost luggage) where technology must step back and let human empathy take the lead to save the brand.The New Litmus Test: Why "Headcount" is a dead metric and why "Revenue per Employee" is the new standard for the next decade of business process management.Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow's Business Today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is your company’s AI strategy a ticking financial time bomb? While consumer subscriptions offer "subsidised intelligence," the transition to enterprise agents like OpenClaw is exposing businesses to "AI bill shocks" and context window bloat. From the hidden mechanics of token-based billing to the capital expenditure of moving models on-premise, Daren Tan of ALPHV Technologies joins Tech Talk to unpack how to scale AI without breaking the bank.Learn More About:Token Billing Mechanics: AI costs are driven by "tokens", broken-down text fragments, where input data (prompts/PDFs) and output responses are billed at different rates depending on the model's reasoning complexity.The "Context Window" Bloat: As chat histories grow, LLMs re-process the entire conversation for every new prompt, exponentially increasing costs. Daren recommends starting fresh threads to prevent "context rot" and wasted spend.Four Pillars of Bill Shock: Organisations face financial risk from 24/7 agentic loops, "agentic checking" (AI verifying AI), and the illusion that enterprise API costs mirror $20 consumer subscriptions.Model Routing & Caching: Strategic cost-saving involves "model routing", sending simple tasks to cheaper "Nano" models, and utilising prompt caching to receive up to 90% discounts on recurring queries.The On-Premise Pivot: When cloud costs become commercially unviable, shifting to local hardware (like Nvidia DGX systems) offers fixed costs and mandatory data sovereignty for regulated industries, albeit with significant upfront Capex.The Governance Gap: Deploying autonomous agents like OpenClaw without strict oversight can grant AI full access to file systems, creating critical security vulnerabilities and credential risks.Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow's Business Today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Free buses, childcare, broadband and housing; who decides what makes a universal basic right? This week, Matt and Roshan discuss Universal Basic Services and begin a two-part conversation on social resilience, post scarcity abundance, and the techno utopians battling to shape and profit from the future.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Employees leaking company secrets. Traceability gaps blocking production. 74% of organisations regret their AI vendors. The rush to adopt artificial intelligence is creating massive blindspots. Daren Tan of ALPHV Technologies joins Tech Talk to unpack the expensive realities of enterprise AI deployment and how to stop "Shadow AI" in its tracks.Learn More About:The Shadow AI Threat: Employees using free-tier consumer AI tools pose a massive cybersecurity risk, requiring strict endpoint management and enterprise legal contracts to prevent proprietary data leaks.Escaping Pilot Purgatory: Enterprise AI projects often fail to scale because leaders chase consumer-level "magic" without engineering for compliance, traceability, and localised hardware costs.Traceability & Explainability: Organisations must build step-by-step reporting tools to justify AI decisions (such as rejecting a bank loan) to ensure accountability when system errors occur.The "Human in the Loop" Safeguard: To manage unpredictable edge cases, companies must deploy fail-safes and manual override triggers that pause autonomous workflows when model performance degrades.Agentic AI & Open Claw: The next frontier of enterprise automation involves autonomous AI agents executing complex device-level tasks, driving a surge in localised processing hardware like Mac Studios to avoid staggering cloud token costs.Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow's Business Today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 Wetware, where brains on chips learn to play the classic game Doom and biocomputing enters the cloud. Matt also outlines plans to fell millions of hectares of the Arctic’s boreal forest and sink them in the ocean in the name of saving the planet. And the weird lessons we can learn from fungus eating ants and rocks about carbon sequestration. All of this as cover, just to make batteries sound exciting.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AI can now write software, debug systems, and generate entire applications in minutes. Some technologists are even claiming that coding is effectively “solved.”But if AI can write the code, what happens to software engineers? Do we still need to learn programming? And why are companies still struggling to find technical talent?On this episode of Tech Talk, we speak with Sharma Lachu, Founder and CEO of Accendo Technologies, about whether AI has truly solved coding, how teams can maximise productivity with AI tools, and what the future looks like for developers and engineers in an AI-driven world.Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow's Business Today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 into the sunset as they wipe $30bn from IBM’s stock in a single day. Microsoft flexes its superhuman powers to etch our history in glass, and erect a real life Fortress of Solitude. Oh, and Hollywood loses its mind over ByteDance’s text to video model Seedance 2.0, which allows any casual user to make the blockbuster of their dreams.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 embedded into operations, enterprises are beginning to rethink how they manage supply chains, improve efficiency, and make decisions in real time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Instead of talking about equitable societies, AI has once again decided we have to revert to the ‘world in peril’ format. A safety lead at Anthropic quits to pursue a future in poetry, while the US Defence Secretary seeks to label the company a risk to national security. While using those same technologies for classified military operations.But don’t worry, we’ve got some light relief in the shape of martial robots dancing on TV.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As artificial intelligence becomes more accessible, it is rapidly changing the nature of cyber threats. From highly personalised phishing and automated intrusion attempts to the growing risk of deepfakes and identity manipulation, attackers are finding new ways to scale and adapt. At the same time, organisations are racing to strengthen their defences with AI of their own. Suresh Srinivasan joins us to explore whether cybersecurity teams are keeping pace, how the balance of power is shifting, and what businesses need to understand as the digital threat landscape enters a far more complex and unpredictable phase.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you feel like a slave to your smartwatch. Is your Screen Time report laughing at you? With holidays around the corner, Matt and Rich look at some of the ways you can use the break to bust open those digital bad habits and reset your devices so they work for you instead of against you.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the past two years, organisations everywhere have been experimenting with AI. Pilots are running, proofs of concept are being showcased, and leadership teams are under pressure to show progress. But behind the excitement, many initiatives never make it past the testing phase.We speak with Khalil Nooh, CEO and Co-Founder of Mesolitica, about why so many AI projects stall before reaching full deployment. From data readiness and leadership mindset to structural barriers inside organisations, we explore what separates companies that successfully scale AI from those that remain stuck in experimentation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AI agents. They sound like your spy dreams come to life. Send them out into the world to snoop on your behalf. In reality, they’re kind of important but boring. Which is why Matt and Rich have put off talking about them for so long. But then a bot only social media platform called Moltbook comes along and suddenly everyone is interested in what these little bits of code have to say. Especially to each other. When they think we aren’t watching. Today they unpack OpenClaw, aka Moltbot, and try to explain what a 2026 operated by agents is going to look like.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As tech giants race to weave AI into every pixel of our digital lives, Mozilla has done the unthinkable: they’ve given users a way out. We dive into Firefox’s new "AI-Off" switch and what it means for the future of the web. We spoke with Alexander Wong from SoyaCincau to find out whether this is a landmark win for user consent or a desperate stand by a "human-first" browser in an increasingly automated world.We explore the growing "AI fatigue" hitting the tech industry and ask the hard questions: Is AI becoming the new bloatware? Can "Digital Quiet" become a luxury feature? From the ethics of the "Organic Web" to the power dynamics of Silicon Valley, we break down why the right to opt-out might be the most important feature of 2026.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Despite their best efforts to resolve the problem, it looks as though Richard and Matt have found no solution to work, though they have found some interesting approaches that might. On today’s show they offer up their apologies and outline what you can expect to see at your desk in 2026. From agentic AI bundling up your day, to managerial trends and mentoring.They also take a look at some of the trends that looked as though they were going to sweep the workplace, like radical transparency and accountability. And why companies are no longer saying the quiet parts out loud.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Meta’s recent $2 billion acquisition of the Singapore-based Manus AI has signaled a major shift: APAC is now outpacing the West in the race for autonomous agents. As geopolitical tensions rise over tech transfers, Europe is left questioning if its "safety-first" regulations are leaving it behind.We speak with AI expert Clemens Wasner to unpack the fallout of the Meta-Manus deal and what it means for global tech sovereignty. Drawing on his decade of experience in Japan and China, Clemens explores the friction between EU governance and APAC speed, the surprising overlap in robotics and chips, and how localised "Sovereign AI" is reshaping the 2026 economic map.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Never has it been so hard to figure out what’s good for you. 10,000 steps a day or 7,000? More red meat or less? To use painkillers or not to use painkillers?Increasingly it seems that medical advice is being issued based more on feelings and political ideology than scientific fact. In the  second part of their Tech in ‘26 series, Matt and Rich examine some of the headline treatments and advances we’re likely to see this year.From new blood tests for dementia and associated brain shuttle treatments that can break the brain-blood barrier, to the expansion of GLP-1 and similar obesity treatments. Plus the future of primary care, with telemedicine going mainstream, and the role of AI in just about every part of medical research and diagnostics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Quantum computing is advancing faster than many realise, and when it does, it could break the encryption that protects banking systems, payment infrastructure, and government data.In this episode of Tech Talk, we speak with Wo Swee Teck, Managing Director at Securemetric Technology, about why Post-Quantum Cryptography is no longer theoretical, and what the real risks are of delaying preparation.We explore Malaysia’s readiness following guidance from NACSA, how banks and government agencies are approaching crypto-agility, and what organisations often underestimate about cryptographic migration. From legacy systems to long-term trust, this conversation looks at the operational, economic, and national implications of the quantum era.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2026. Will it be the year that a robot butler finally delivers crisps to Matt on a silver platter? That nuclear fusion goes mainstream and everyone owns their own star generating tokamak? Maybe a way to send actual viruses to digital scammers.Or will it be more rent to own subscriptions, low earth orbit collisions, private space travel and incomprehensible fridges. In the first part of a series on technologies in ‘26, Rich and Matt take a look at consumer tech, imagine what IRL AI looks like, advances in energy production. And those all-important billionaire bolt holes in space.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Tech Talk, we explore how 5G, AI, and mixed reality are reshaping the future of healthcare delivery. Following among the world’s first multi-country live surgery conducted by Universiti Malaya Medical Centre and CelcomDigi, we look at how holomedicine is enabling real time surgical mentoring, immersive medical training, and cross border collaboration.T. Kugan, Chief Innovation Officer at CelcomDigi, and Professor Dr Adina Abdullah, Head of Digital Health Unit at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre, share how ultra low latency 5G and holographic visualisation are moving from pilot projects into real clinical environments. We discuss what this means for access to specialist care, surgical education, and Malaysia’s ambitions as a regional healthcare and medical training hub.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“If you’re enjoying it, you aren’t really listening.” That’s Matt’s upbeat introduction to 2026. He’s probably not wrong. In a world of constant iteration cycles and incremental upgrades, we take time to salute some of the big names and services that the tech world lost in 2026.Skype, AOL and the Blue Screen Of Death; we salute you for the familiarity you brought to our lives in a world of confusion, change and AI creep.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AI doesn’t always arrive with headlines or hype. Often, it slips quietly into the tools we use every day. In this episode of Tech Talk, we’re joined by Matt Armitage from Mattsplained to explore how artificial intelligence is already shaping ordinary workplaces, from hiring and customer service to finance and logistics. We look at why much of this change goes unnoticed, what it means for jobs versus tasks, and how workers and businesses can better recognise the shifts already happening around them.Image provided by Nano Banana.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Injectable pacemakers, PAC-MANN munching protease tests for pancreatic cancer, de-extinction events and bottling the power of the sun. And, because Matt insisted, synthetic worms made of active matter.As we move into the era of multi gene editing, non-invasive targeted treatments for diseases, and storing power in air, we celebrate some of the weirder milestones in a fantastic year for science.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are more connected than any generation before us. Our messages, photos, searches, location data, subscriptions, and even our voices now live online, often long after we stop thinking about them.But here’s a question most of us avoid. When we die, what actually happens to that digital version of us? Who owns it? Who controls it? And who decides whether it should stay alive, be deleted, or be reused in ways we never agreed to?Today on Tech Talk, we are talking about the idea of the digital afterlife. The data trails we leave behind, the risks they pose, and the ethical, legal, and emotional questions that come with them.Joining us is Suresh Sankaran Srinivasan, Group Head of Cyber Security at Axiata Group Berhad, and someone who has spent over two decades thinking about how our digital lives are created, protected, and sometimes misused.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the war on science, to vaccines for cancer to contact lenses that allow you to see in the spectrum of light invisible to our eyes, we’re looking back at some of the incredible and amazing breakthroughs in science we’ve seen in 2025.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As AI agents begin making decisions and transactions across borders, the line between human intent and machine action is blurring fast. In this episode, Jumio’s Chief Product and Technology Officer, Bala Kumar, explores what happens when “It wasn’t me, my AI did it” becomes a real defence. From the rise of “Know Your Agent” and reusable digital identities to the new arms race in AI-driven fraud, we look at how accountability, trust, and identity are being redefined across APAC’s digital economy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The robots are running amok again. This week Amazon announced Frontier Agents, bots that hopefully will not hallucinate their way through tasks lasting days at a time. Waymo’s auto taxis appear to be rebelling against their human overlords, speeding away from traffic lights and randomly performing U-turns. But don’t worry, a volunteer army is assembling in Amsterdam, ready to keep things running when MattNet takes over and the world goes dark. Finally, we look at the benefits of pressure washing your brain, Matt’s morbid curiosity and Richard’s misconceptions about horror fansSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Artificial intelligence has made its way into nearly every corner of our online lives, from search results to social media feeds. But what happens when AI starts rewriting the news itself? Google is now testing AI-generated headlines in its Discover feed, replacing original titles with automated rewrites. Some of these headlines have been inaccurate, misleading, or even completely wrong. It raises big questions about how much control algorithms should have over the stories we see and trust. Today, we discuss how AI is shaping information, engagement, and credibility in the digital age with Kiron Kesav, Chief Strategy Officer, PHD APAC at OMG Malaysia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a world of cost-cutting and minimal headcounts, AI doesn’t need to better than the people it replaces. It doesn’t need to be as good. Heck, it doesn’t even need to be competent. Matt and Rich explore a world where technology is good enough. Good enough to stop you switching service providers. Good enough to keep you entertained. Good enough to protect the bottom line. But humanity’s history is one of exceptionality, of striving to make progress. Today they explore what could happen to knowledge, to history, to culture and progress in a world that’s just good enough.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Most companies still struggle to turn AI hype into real enterprise value. Despite years of excitement, many organisations remain stuck in pilots while boards demand measurable ROI and employees worry about displacement. Legacy systems, messy data, and leadership hesitation continue to hold back meaningful execution.Yee Chee Meng, CEO of Infomina Berhad, speaks to us about what’s real and what’s exaggerated in today’s AI landscape — from the outcomes enterprises should prioritise to the human impact of automation, the realities of augmentation, and the governance and infrastructure gaps Malaysia must address to stay competitive in ASEAN. A grounded, practical look at turning AI from buzzword into business value.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Imagine waking up one morning and the Internet isn’t there anymore. You can’t order a car, groceries, log into your remote working portal, or any of the dozens of other digital apps and platforms we use on the daily. Usually when this happens it’s one or two apps for one or two hours. A temporary outage that the platform’s engineers quickly solve. But what if this Dark Web spreads, taking down other sites, apps and platforms?What would the world look like? How would it be repaired? And why on earth does Rich think Matt knows how to fix the things he breaks?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Cloudflare stumbled, so did thousands of websites, apps, and digital services around the globe. It affected everything from banking transactions to social media feeds and even some AI platforms. For most users it felt like the internet itself had paused.We want to understand what happened, why a single company can have this much impact, and what this means for businesses that depend on always-on digital infrastructure. Joining me is Suresh Srinivasan, Group Head of Cyber Security, Axiata Group Berhad. We will talk about the root cause, the role that Cloudflare plays in the global internet, the question of whether DNS is still the weak point in the ecosystem, and what this outage tells us about our increasing reliance on a small group of large infrastructure companies.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the world rushes to build ever-smarter AI, a new kind of empire is emerging, one built on data, language, and cultural dominance. Most large language models are trained in the West, shaping how billions experience technology.In this episode of Tech Talk, Khalil Nooh, Co-Founder and CEO of Mesolitica, joins Richard Bradbury to explore AI Colonialism: who controls the data, who benefits from it, and how Malaysia can claim its place in the next digital frontier.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When was the last time you were bored? No, not that 30 second lift ride with no cell service. Properly bored. Whimsically looking out of a window bored. Can you even remember?Rich and Matt look at the vital importance of boredom for our mental well-being and physical health. And discover how hard it is to achieve in the age of the attention economy.In a world of cheap content and quick dopamine fixes, has silence and stillness become a luxury good reserved for the rich?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We look at how Shah Alam’s new AI-powered Integrated Smart Monitoring System, IRIS, could redefine how Malaysian cities operate. Can technology make urban life smarter, safer, and more sustainable, or are we just building cities that watch more than they serve?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Would you rather hang out with a charming bot or a toxic human? That’s just one of the many questions Rich and Matt pickle their brains with as they struggle to comprehend the debate around the emerging consciousness of AI. Can an AI be a person? What would its rights look like? What would its responsibilities be? What would you do if it bullied an old lady: put it in AI jail?In a debate with no clear answers and the emergence of more questions by the day, Matt wonders if the nature of consciousness itself needs to change to accommodate these alien minds. It would be so much easier if Zoltan were president.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Malaysia’s new trade deal with the United States has been hailed as an economic win, but it also comes with digital strings attached. Under the agreement, US tech giants are exempted from Malaysia’s digital services tax and contributions to the Universal Service Provision Fund, while Washington gains a consultative role over "trusted" 5G and 6G suppliers.Alexander Wong, Co-Founder of SoyaCincau, joins us to explore what these clauses mean for Malaysia’s digital sovereignty, local startups, and the future of our tech ecosystem.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mic check. One two. Testing. This week Matt and Rich try to figure out exactly when everyday life became a never-ending series of tests with no clear meaning. From the moral purity maze of modern dating rituals to the social power of rideshare operators and the Captchas that prove you’re human while training an AI, life has become a hero’s journey of inconsequence and weaponized politeness. Is this intro a test? If so, is it testing your patience or your resolve? We don’t know either. And we aren’t sure that listening will help.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we’re talking about something surprisingly revealing, your voice. Not what you say, but how you say it.Because according to Canary Speech, a 20-second audio clip could tell more about your mental health than a half-hour questionnaire.It’s like having a stethoscope for stress, anxiety and even cognitive decline, except instead of checking your heartbeat, it listens to your “How are you?” and goes, “Actually… you don’t sound fine.”In this conversation, Henry O’Connell, Co-Founder and CEO of Canary Speech, helps us understand how machine learning is turning everyday speech into a new kind of health indicator, and whether that’s brilliant, slightly creepy or a bit of both.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is “Whole Brain AI” a breakthrough or just branding?Prashant Kumar, Founder of Entermind, a new consultancy in Malaysia, believes AI should amplify both logic and imagination, where the left brain and right brain work together. But in a business landscape where many firms are still struggling to get the basics of AI right, does this approach offer fresh clarity or simply add to the buzzword cloud?We explore what Whole Brain AI actually means, whether Malaysia is ready for it, and how businesses can balance efficiency with creativity when adopting AI. From avoiding “black box” consulting models to building an AI culture rooted in trust and imagination, it’s a conversation that asks whether we’re really thinking with our whole brain about AI.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.