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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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MSP347. What Have We Learned? The Science Stories Of 2025
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...
The Rise Of "It Wasn't Me, My AI Did It" in APAC
As AI agents begin making decisions and transactions across borders, the line between human intent and machine action is blurring fast. In this episod...
MSP346. Weird Science: Filthy Brains, Frontier Agents And IRC
The robots are running amok again. This week Amazon announced Frontier Agents, bots that hopefully will not hallucinate their way through tasks lastin...
How Automation is Changing What We Read (and Believe)
Artificial intelligence has made its way into nearly every corner of our online lives, from search results to social media feeds. But what happens whe...
MSP345 Good Enough. For You.
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 does...
Cut the Hype: Where AI Really Delivers for Business
Most companies still struggle to turn AI hype into real enterprise value. Despite years of excitement, many organisations remain stuck in pilots while...
MSP344. The Other Dark Web
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 t...
When The Web Stopped Working
When Cloudflare stumbled, so did thousands of websites, apps, and digital services around the globe. It affected everything from banking transactions...
AI Colonialism: Who Owns the Next Digital Empire?
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 langua...
MSP343. Bored To Be Wild
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 bore...
Inside Shah Alam’s AI Brain
We look at how Shah Alam’s new AI-powered Integrated Smart Monitoring System, IRIS, could redefine how Malaysian cities operate. Can technology make u...
MSP342. Alien Intelligence: Charming Bots And Toxic Humans
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 s...
Trade, Tech, and the Trump Factor: What Malaysia Gave Up, and Gained
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 agreem...
MSP341. The Hero’s Journey: Testing Out Life
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...
AI That Hears What You’re Not Saying
Today we’re talking about something surprisingly revealing, your voice. Not what you say, but how you say it.
Because according to Canary Speech...
Whole Brain AI: Buzzword or Breakthrough?
Is “Whole Brain AI” a breakthrough or just branding?
Prashant Kumar, Founder of Entermind, a new consultancy in Malaysia, believes AI sho...
MSP340. The Reality Remix: AI’s Amazon Moment
Spongebob for President. As our social media feeds fill with the examples of OpenAI’s experiment in synthetic cinema, the quite shocking Sora 2 text t...
Malaysia's MarTech Machine
Now, marketing used to be about clever slogans and good lighting. These days, it’s about data pipelines, consent forms, and algorithms that know you’r...
MSP339 Weird Science. Hard Work: Babies, Bank Cards & Body Art
Is the existential threat of the office cubicle replacing traditional horror movie fixations like zombies and monsters? As workplace horror sweeps the...
Has Illegal Streaming Gotten Out Of Hand?
Cybersecurity conversations often focuses on phishing, ransomware, and data breaches, but a less obvious threat is growing into households through ill...
Why Deep Tech Could Be Malaysia’s Next Big Play
When we talk about startups in Malaysia, we usually think of e-commerce, fintech, or SaaS. But deep tech and AI startups are a different story and qui...
MSP338 Buying Time: The Price Of Immortality
Can money buy you time? If breakthroughs in epigenetics continue, the only thing between you and a lifespan of 150 years might be the ability to pay f...
When Cyber Recovery Becomes Leadership’s Job
Kavitha Mariappan has spent her career helping organisations navigate technology shifts, from driving customer transformation at Zscaler to her curren...
MSP337. Reality Sandwich: Has The Internet Turned To Slop?
From uncanny valleys to Big Willie style, Rich and Matt leave no metaphorical stone unturned as they pour a hefty bucket of AI slop over themselves.
Wasted Power, Big Ideas
John Belizaire has gone from architecting systems at Intel to selling two tech companies and now building data centres powered by renewable energy tha...
Can Malaysia Scale Industrial AI?
Over the past few years, industrial AI has moved from boardroom buzzword to factory floor reality. It’s now being deployed to streamline operations, c...
MSP336. Slop, Scams and Strikes: Halfway to Hail
On this oddly timed edition, Matt and Rich hike into the uncanny valleys of machine music. From the Laurel Canyon folk rockers that never existed, to...
Hackathons and the Future of Youth Employment
Malaysia is producing more tech graduates than ever, yet many still struggle to land the right jobs. Hackathons are changing that — evolving from codi...
MSP335. AI Ate My Intern: The Talent Search For Empathy
Like a hungry Pac-Man after too many power ups, AI is coming for the career ladder itself. The grunt work is gone, replaced by break-free LLMs, while...
The Digital Gap: Why Malaysian Enterprises Are Stuck In The Middle
AI is reshaping industries worldwide, but Malaysia’s digital journey has its own challenges and opportunities. We speak with Prateek Pashine, Chief En...
MSP334. The Big Sleep: Business at Bedtime
Decades of mid-morning mania, questionable (sleep) hygiene and an anesthetist’s worst nightmare, Matt Armitage is the closest thing to being professio...
Should We Trust AI Before We Buy?
AI isn’t just helping us shop anymore—it’s starting to decide how we shop. In Southeast Asia, and especially in Malaysia, consumers are embracing AI b...
MSP333. Uber for Snake Oil
The brain worms might be slowing him down this week, but Matt Armitage is no stranger to parasites. This week we’re back inside the world of startups,...
Tackling Online Harm, One Case at a Time
Online safety has always been a concern, but in a world increasingly shaped by AI, scams, and digital manipulation, it’s become a critical public issu...
MSP332. Florida Man, Robo Bunnies And The Cure For Cancer
This week’s episode might sound like a Flaming Lips album title but robot bunnies really are fighting Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades. With...
Built to Protect: CelcomDigi’s Scalable Cybersecurity for Every Business
In this episode of Tech Talk, we dive into how CelcomDigi is helping businesses strengthen their cybersecurity posture in an increasingly complex digi...
MSP331. Weird Science: Coldplay, Coal And Data Hygiene
An awkward clinch on a jumbotron is an odd place for Matt and Rich to start their thoughts, but, in 2025, the world of tech is a strange place to be.<...
How SapiensAI Is Rethinking Work Tools
As Singapore rolls out its National AI Strategy 2.0, the region is signaling a strong focus on AI as part of its economic and digital future. SapiensA...
MSP330. If It Ain’t Grok, Don’t Fix It
Grok. It’s the best AI out there.* If you want a crash course in what AI should and shouldn’t be, Grok is the model to head for. At least that’s the o...
Using AI to Analyse Gut Microbiome to Help Everyone
When it comes to health tech, most of us think gadgets, not gut bacteria. But what if the future of medicine isn’t wearable, it’s microbial?