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AI-Ya Daily episodes
- Run a Small Online Shop in Malaysia With AI: Four Steps and the Rules
In this Sunday practical from our AI news podcast for Malaysia, Aiman leads four steps for running a small online shop on Shopee, Lazada, TikTok Shop or WhatsApp Business with AI: listings in Bahasa Melayu, English and Chinese, chat replies that don’t sound like a robot, and pricing with simple stock tracking. Then come the rules on honest product claims, fake reviews and customer data under the Personal Data Protection Act, with an illustrative Kuantan home seller worked through in ringgit.
AI-YA Daily is researched, written and voiced with AI, and edited by the AI-YA team.
Also in this episode, we follow up our 28 October story: Meta’s new terms, which make businesses “solely responsible” for its AI features, are still reported to start on 20 November. We correct our ChatGPT Go price from 8 November, after Lowyat.NET reported a cut to RM24 a month. We revisit our respond.io Verdict from 12 October for one-person shops, and note that a new e-commerce Bill could reach Parliament in March 2027. The Big Question asks whether a small seller should rely on each giant platform’s built-in AI or keep her own tools and customer list.
Timestamps
0:04 What a RM39 tote loses in fees0:33 Meet the hosts: the Sunday practical1:09 Step 1: photos and listings in three languages2:47 Step 2: chat replies that don’t sound like a robot4:17 Step 3: pricing and simple stock tracking5:59 A word from AI-YA6:41 Step 4: the rules, and one Kuantan seller start to finish11:01 The giants’ free AI, or your own tools?11:57 Verdict: Canva Pro for listing photos12:30 Write five honest fact sheets12:51 Tomorrow: SME and toolsToday’s Verdict: Canva Pro (RM250 a year) for a home seller’s listing photos. Aiman: Free cukup. Mei Ling: Bayar. Raj: Hype.
Stories and sources
- WorldFirst: Shopee seller fees in Malaysia (updated 30 October 2026)
- Jumix: Shopee seller fees Malaysia 2026
- Priceshop: TikTok Shop Malaysia raises commission fees from 31 October
- Zetpy: Lazada Malaysia commission adjustment, August 2026
- BigSeller: Shopee Malaysia Product AI Optimiser
- BigSeller: Consumer Protection (Electronic Trade Transactions) Regulations 2024 for sellers
- Canva Malaysia pricing
- The Sun: Only 25% of Malaysian online sellers have integrated AI, Lazada
- TechCrunch: Meta’s AI agent for WhatsApp Business is now available globally
- WhatsApp Business app
- Beri.net: Meta’s Commercial Terms from 20 November 2026
- Consumer Protection Act 1999 (Act 599), KPDN reprint
- Shopee Malaysia: How do I report brushing activities?
- The Star: Ratings, reviews and riddles
- Future of Privacy Forum: Malaysia’s new data protection and AI ethics frameworks
- Malay Mail: Malaysia is getting a new e-commerce law
- Lowyat.NET: OpenAI knocks down ChatGPT Go price to RM24 a month
- The Star: Services sector revenue and e-commerce income, Q2 2026
Standing thread: T4 Between the giants.
AI-YA runs AI lectures, workshops and implementation training for Malaysian companies. Details at ai-ya.my/podcast.
14 min - Google's New Gemini Model and Nvidia's Shake-Up: Malaysia's Week in AI
This Saturday week in review of AI news for Malaysia starts with the story we hadn’t covered: Google’s Gemini 4 Hydrogen, which now reaches free Gemini users only when Google’s system picks it, and costs developers about eleven times more than a Malaysian-hosted alternative. Aiman, Mei Ling and Raj then follow up two stories from this week and revisit every call we made.
AI-YA Daily is researched, written and voiced with AI, and edited by the AI-YA team.
Also in this episode: Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia’s chief executive, YTL Power loses more than RM3 billion in market value in a day, and MITI says it never cleared Megaspeed or its Johor-linked affiliate Speedmatrix. This updates Thursday’s episode. Anthropic’s listing is reported to be about six times oversubscribed and is set for 19 November, which updates our Wednesday and Friday episodes. In the week revisited, Mei Ling and Raj go back over our calls on ChatGPT Go, Amazon Quick Plus, Claude Pro, the EPI data centre course and ILMU Claw Starter. Mei Ling adds a caveat to one of them and we admit one story we underweighted. The RM30 million small-firm AI fund still has no published rules. The Big Question asks whether AI readiness drives should count declarations or proven skills.
Timestamps
0:04 The week in one line0:25 Meet the hosts: week in review0:59 Gemini 4 Hydrogen: what free users actually get2:53 Nvidia’s chief resigns, and MITI answers on a Johor firm5:23 Anthropic’s listing: six times oversubscribed6:49 A word from Hitower IT7:36 The week revisited: five Verdicts, six Big Questions11:36 Count declarations or proven skills?12:24 One free module and one fact-check12:53 Tomorrow: run an online shop with AIStories and sources
- Google: Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen
- Nvidia Form 8-K: CEO transition
- CNBC: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns, live updates
- CNBC: What we know about Megaspeed’s Asia footprint
- Malay Mail: Miti says it never cleared Megaspeed, Speedmatrix
- The Rakyat Post: YTL Power caught in market fallout
- Malay Mail: Bursa Malaysia opens lower as Nvidia crisis weighs
- CNBC: Huang’s exit and Nvidia’s AI financing pact
- Reuters via MarketScreener: Anthropic IPO about six times oversubscribed
- Malay Mail: National AI Readiness Week opens
- Malay Mail: Budget 2027’s AI measures, including the RM30 million MDEC allocation
Standing thread: T2 Who gets left behind.
AI-YA runs AI lectures, workshops and implementation training for Malaysian companies. Details at ai-ya.my/podcast.
15 min - Is AI a Bubble, and What Happens to Malaysia If It Pops?
In this Friday special of our AI news podcast, Aiman, Mei Ling and Raj ask whether AI is a bubble, and what happens to Malaysia if it pops. Mei Ling leads a longer, reflective episode that weighs Anthropic’s listing, the slide in chip shares and the IMF’s warning against real revenue and usage, and ends with each host’s position.
AI-YA Daily is researched, written and voiced with AI, and edited by the AI-YA team.
The episode covers several other stories:
- Anthropic’s roadshow terms, and the suppliers buying its shares.
- SoftBank’s US$7.1 billion quarterly loss.
- 68,177 Malaysian job losses this year, and the EIS support for those affected.
- Kulai’s push beyond data centres.
- The EPF’s foreign exposure, and Bursa’s tech sell-off.
- Britain’s railway mania, the dot-com crash, the fibre glut and Malaysia in 2009.
- What The Ezra Klein Show, Plain English, Odd Lots and The Diary of a CEO said about the bubble debate, and what they miss about Malaysia.
We’re not licensed advisers, so this is history and evidence, not stock tips.
Timestamps
0:04 Is AI a bubble? Raj’s brother-in-law asks0:49 Meet the hosts: is AI a bubble?1:46 The strongest case the boom is real6:23 Jobs, exporters, data centre towns and the EPF11:45 The case for a bubble, and what history teaches16:57 A word from AI-YA17:39 What four big podcasts say, and what they miss about Malaysia23:37 Our positions: slow down or keep going?27:38 Draw your exposure map28:17 Tomorrow: week in reviewStories and sources
- Anthropic launches IPO roadshow (SiliconANGLE)
- Anthropic sets IPO price range (RTTNews)
- ChatGPT’s 1.2 billion weekly users claim
- I tried to prove AI was a bubble (CFA Institute)
- AI, productivity and the workforce (Atlanta Fed)
- AI export bet: here to stay? (The Star)
- 27 approved data centres projected to create 4,053 jobs (The Vibes)
- AI blamed for 121,401 job cuts (HR Director America)
- 68,177 Malaysians lost jobs this year (SAYS)
- PERKESO boosts EIS benefits (NST)
- Nexus Sedenak and Kulai beyond data centres (Bernama)
- Malaysia’s data centres, costs and spillovers (The Star)
- SoftBank loses US$7 billion in one quarter (The Edge)
- EPF’s first-half 2026 results (The Edge)
- AI sell-off wipes RM4.46 billion off Bursa tech stocks (The Edge)
- The coming AI meltdown: Oracle’s data centre payments (The American Prospect)
- AI productivity gains are mostly still to come (Fortune)
- The British Railway Mania of the 1840s (Andrew Odlyzko)
- Dot-com bubble peaks (This Day in Tech History)
- Malaysia’s 2001 slowdown (Malaysiakini)
- Is glut killing fibre-optic firms? (AP via Deseret News)
- Malaysia’s contraction in 2009 (RTTNews)
- Is There an A.I. Bubble? A Debate (The Ezra Klein Show, transcript)
- The AI Story Wall Street Doesn’t Want to Hear (Plain English)
- What Wall Street Really Thinks About the AI Trade Now (Odd Lots)
- Barclays’ Altmann on Odd Lots (PPC Land)
- Ed Zitron on The Diary of a CEO
Standing thread: The big questions (Friday special).
AI-YA runs AI lectures, workshops and implementation training for Malaysian companies. Details at ai-ya.my/podcast.
30 min - Grab's US$850m AI Deal: Which Malaysian Firms Get Paid, and Where ILMU Fits
Today’s AI news for Malaysia follows Grab’s US$850 million (about RM3.45 billion) peninsular half of Monday’s deal with SoftBank, and asks which Malaysian firms could supply it. Mei Ling looks at the contractors already winning data centre work, from Sunway Construction to Kinergy and Jati Tinggi, and asks where homegrown models like ILMU and MaLLaM fit.
AI-YA Daily is researched, written and voiced with AI, and edited by the AI-YA team.
Also in this episode: Nvidia’s board opens an independent inquiry, and a Singapore customer with a Malaysian unit is in the story. We explain why Malaysia’s chip export permits matter. Norway pauses new grid reservations for data centres and plans to license them by priority, which raises the question of who gets power first in Malaysia. And a US judge lets parts of a Claude Max advertising class action proceed. Raj’s Claude Pro vote stands. The Big Question returns to fresh graduates: train them on AI to do senior work sooner, or protect the entry-level roles where they learn?
Timestamps
0:04 Cold open: the builder ahead of the investor0:38 Meet the hosts1:12 Nvidia’s board inquiry and Malaysia’s chip paperwork2:49 Norway pauses data centre grid bookings4:38 The Claude Max lawsuit: read the limits, not the multiplier6:03 A word from Hitower IT6:50 Grab’s US$850m peninsular deal: which Malaysian firms get paid, and where ILMU fits10:40 The Big Question: train fresh grads on AI, or protect entry-level roles?11:48 The Verdict: ILMU Claw Starter12:32 One thing to do today12:59 Tomorrow: Friday special, is AI a bubble?Today’s Verdict: ILMU Claw Starter (RM25 per seat a month, RM27 with SST). Aiman: Bayar. Mei Ling: Hype. Raj: Free cukup.
Stories and sources
- SoftBank Group and Grab sign joint development agreements (SoftBank, 9 Nov)
- PM welcomes SoftBank-led AI investment (Bernama, 9 Nov)
- Grab third-quarter 2026 results (Grab, 3 Nov)
- Sunway Construction wins RM1.74bn Serendah data centre contract (The Edge)
- SunCon secures RM920.8m additional Johor data centre works (The Star, 4 Nov)
- Kinergy bags RM47.5m data centre electrical works (The Edge, 12 Oct)
- Jati Tinggi bags RM30m data centre power job in Johor (The Edge, 19 Oct)
- ILMU models and announcements (ILMU)
- Mesolitica on Hugging Face
- Statement from Nvidia’s Board of Directors (Nvidia, 8 Nov)
- What is Megaspeed? (CNBC, 9 Nov)
- Megaspeed’s Malaysian unit, NYT report relayed (The Edge)
- MITI imposes permit requirement on US-origin AI chip exports (The Star, 14 Jul 2025)
- Statnett pauses data centre grid reservations (Statnett, 9 Nov)
- Norway reins in data centre industry (The Edge, 10 Nov)
- Anthropic must face Claude Max advertising claims (The Next Web, 7 Nov)
- Claude plans and pricing (Claude)
- ILMU Console pricing (ILMU)
- ILMU legal documents (ILMU)
- ILMUcode at Universiti Malaya (Lowyat, 2 Oct)
- Fresh grads, no experience, no job (Malay Mail, 1 Nov)
Standing thread: T3 Fresh grads.
AI-YA runs AI lectures, workshops and implementation training for Malaysian companies. Details at ai-ya.my/podcast.
14 min - Sarawak's 5GW AI Campus: Which Jobs Come With It, and How to Get One
In today’s AI news, Raj asks what jobs could come with the planned five-gigawatt AI build in Sarawak, after SoftBank, Grab and PETROS signed a joint development agreement on Monday. We price the realistic routes in ringgit, from Sarawak’s own electrical competency certificates to free and paid data centre courses, for workers across Malaysia, including a forty-year-old admin manager.
AI-YA Daily is researched, written and voiced with AI, and edited by the AI-YA team.
Also in this episode: Anthropic releases Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, faster and 20% cheaper, ahead of a listing aimed at the week of 16 November. That updates our 23 October and 7 November episodes, and Raj’s Claude Pro vote stands. Australia’s central bank says a data centre boom helped push its rates to 4.85%, while Bank Negara Malaysia held the OPR at 2.75%. And in a story we missed, Malaysia’s planned government cloud would bar AI training on citizens’ data without written permission, as 317 responses on the AI Governance Bill are reviewed. The Big Question asks whether Sarawak’s graduates should be trained to build Malaysian models or to run the world’s best.
Timestamps
0:04 Cold open: a job that doesn’t exist yet0:36 Meet the hosts1:10 Anthropic’s Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2: faster and cheaper2:52 Data centres pushed Australia’s rates up; Bank Negara held4:17 Government cloud: no AI training on citizens’ data without permission5:32 A word from AI-YA6:12 Sarawak’s AI campus: which jobs, and realistic routes in11:06 The Big Question: train graduates to build our own models, or run the best?12:11 The Verdict: Certified Data Centre Professional course12:43 One thing to do today13:11 Tomorrow: Made in MalaysiaToday’s Verdict: EPI Certified Data Centre Professional (CDCP) course (RM5,400 in a classroom, about RM3,630 online). Aiman: Bayar. Mei Ling: Hype. Raj: Free cukup.
Stories and sources
- SoftBank Group, Grab and PETROS plan to invest US$1 billion to develop AI infrastructure in Sarawak (SoftBank, 9 November 2026)
- SoftBank Group and Grab sign joint development agreements for AI infrastructure in Malaysia (SoftBank, 9 November 2026)
- PM welcomes SoftBank-led AI investment (Utusan Melayu Plus, 9 November 2026)
- Abang Jo on how clean energy will draw tech investments (The Edge Malaysia)
- 27 approved data centres projected to create 4,053 jobs (The Vibes, 15 October 2026)
- Johor’s data centres: implications for the talent landscape (ISEAS Fulcrum, 2025)
- STT GDC partners Johor Talent Development Council (STT GDC, April 2026)
- Certificate of Competency as a Wireman (Sarawak Government)
- Certificate of Competency as a Chargeman (Sarawak Government)
- Schneider Electric University free courses
- CDCP: Certified Data Centre Professional (Iverson Malaysia)
- EPI Training On Demand prices (EPI)
- Anthropic launches powerful new models ahead of Wall Street debut (Free Malaysia Today/AFP, 10 November 2026)
- RBA’s Hunter says AI has yet to deliver productivity boost, trigger job losses (The Star/Reuters, 9 November 2026)
- Monetary Policy Statement, 5 November 2026 (Bank Negara Malaysia)
- Malaysia plans to restrict AI training on citizens’ data without government permission (MediaNama, 9 November 2026)
- USD/MYR exchange rate (Trading Economics, 9 November 2026)
Standing thread: T1 Sovereignty.
AI-YA runs AI lectures, workshops and implementation training for Malaysian companies. Details at ai-ya.my/podcast.
15 min - What 'No Cheap Power' Means for Malaysian Business Electricity Bills
Today’s AI news for Malaysia starts with your electricity bill: Mei Ling explains what Minister Johari Abdul Ghani’s “no cheap power” line for data centres means for business tariffs this quarter, with November’s 3.60 sen surcharge and a December forecast of up to 7.98 sen. She also checks, briefly, whether MDEC’s RM30 million small-firm AI fund has published rules yet.
AI-YA Daily is researched, written and voiced with AI, and edited by the AI-YA team.
Also in this episode: SoftBank, Grab and PETROS sign a joint development agreement with US$1 billion (about RM4.06 billion) in seed capital for AI infrastructure in Sarawak, which updates our 12 October and 26 October episodes. Homegrown navigation apps multiply after the Waze curb for civil servants, but some keep their data in Singapore and the US. Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil says Malaysia may speed up its move to quantum-safe encryption, as OpenAI and Anthropic say their AI disproved a long-held computer science assumption. The Big Question asks what “local” really means when you choose a tool for your business data.
Timestamps
0:04 Cold open: the fuel surcharge on a shop’s bill0:31 Meet the hosts1:05 SoftBank, Grab and PETROS put US$1bn behind Sarawak AI3:04 Homegrown map apps multiply after the Waze curb4:41 Quantum-safe encryption, and AI disproves a computer science assumption6:08 A word from Hitower IT6:56 What “no cheap power” means for business bills, and the RM30m fund check10:33 The Big Question: what does “local” really mean for your data?11:35 The Verdict: Claude Pro12:25 One thing to do today12:56 Tomorrow: work and skillsToday’s Verdict: Claude Pro (about RM81 a month, or RM811 a year). Aiman: Bayar. Mei Ling: Free cukup. Raj: Hype.
Stories and sources
- Single Buyer: Automatic Fuel Adjustment, November 2026 and December–February forecast
- The Star: Data centres must pay for unused power allocations, says Johari (15 October)
- The Star: Govt to ensure power demands of data centres do not affect other industries (28 October)
- The Star: Low impact on TNB from expanded power subsidy
- Paul Tan: TNB AFA rate September 2026 and how the 3 sen band works
- Lowyat.NET: Government reviewing electricity tariff mechanism, user-pays option
- The Star (Reuters): AI power rush sends data centres hunting for used turbines
- Malay Mail: Free AI, tax breaks and business grants in Budget 2027
- MDEC media releases
- SoftBank Group: SoftBank, Grab and PETROS plan to invest US$1 billion in Sarawak AI infrastructure
- Bernama: SoftBank-led consortium’s AI investment reflects global confidence in Malaysia
- The Star: Homegrown navigation apps are showing Malaysians the way forward
- Lowyat.NET: Malaysia considers accelerating quantum migration
- The Star (New York Times): How AI just blew up a key tenet of computer science
- Claude pricing
- Malay Mail: Ringgit closes lower, 6 November (exchange rate used)
Standing thread: T4 Between the giants.
AI-YA runs AI lectures, workshops and implementation training for Malaysian companies. Details at ai-ya.my/podcast.
14 min - Six Months of Free AI From AWS: What Malaysian SMEs Pay After the Trial
Today’s AI news for Malaysia looks at Amazon Web Services’ offer of six free months of its Amazon Quick workplace assistant for small firms, through GDEX’s GD XCHANGE and the distributor VSTECS. Aiman works out what month seven costs in ringgit, when it pays for itself, and what breaks, from unpublished readiness criteria to usage meters and overshared folders.
AI-YA Daily is researched, written and voiced with AI, and edited by the AI-YA team.
Also in this episode, Hong Leong Bank keeps all ten graduates from its technology trainee programme, after a year spent building AI chatbots and automation. In an update to Saturday’s episode, OpenAI promises to pay the power costs of the data centres it owns after a US voter backlash, while Minister Johari Abdul Ghani tells the Dewan Rakyat that operators can’t expect cheap energy in Malaysia. And British bank data puts consumer AI spending above £1 billion a year, with Claude gaining on ChatGPT. Malaysia has no comparable figure yet, so we explain what the AI subscription tax relief means for you. The Big Question asks whether a readiness test leaves the least-prepared firms behind.
Timestamps
0:04 Cold open: free AI, after an exam nobody can revise for0:28 Meet the hosts1:01 Hong Leong Bank keeps all ten AI-building graduate trainees2:16 Who pays the data centre power bill? OpenAI and Johari3:47 Britain’s £1bn AI subscription habit, and Malaysia’s missing number5:20 A word from AI-YA5:59 AWS’s six free months of Amazon Quick: what month seven costs10:15 The Big Question: help firms that can’t pass, or back those that can?11:13 The Verdict: Amazon Quick Plus11:46 One thing to do today12:11 Tomorrow: policy and moneyToday’s Verdict: Amazon Quick Plus (about RM81 per user a month, billed annually). Aiman: Bayar. Mei Ling: Hype. Raj: Free cukup.
Stories and sources
- AWS launches Semarak AI Malaysia (Amazon press release)
- AWS officially launches Semarak AI Malaysia (Lowyat.NET)
- Amazon Quick pricing (AWS)
- Ringgit opens weaker, RM4.04 to RM4.05 range (Bernama via Media Selangor)
- Hong Leong turns AI-building trainees into permanent hires (Fintech News Malaysia)
- OpenAI releases new data center policy proposal after election rebuke (CNBC)
- OpenAI to pay full data-centre power costs, drop official NDAs (AI Weekly)
- Malaysia will not offer cheap power and water to data centre operators: Johari (theSun)
- Claude’s UK share grows as paid AI tops £1bn a year (AI Weekly summary of Bloomberg)
- Budget 2027: AI subscriptions will be eligible for income tax relief (SoyaCincau)
Standing thread: T2 Who gets left behind.
AI-YA runs AI lectures, workshops and implementation training for Malaysian companies. Details at ai-ya.my/podcast.
14 min - Rewrite Your CV and Practise Interviews With AI: Four Safe Steps for Malaysia
In this Sunday practical from our AI news podcast for Malaysia, Aiman leads four steps to rewrite a CV and prepare for a job interview with AI, with real ringgit costs. We cover what never to paste into a chatbot, how to rewrite for one real advert, how to practise interviews out loud, and how to check a recruiter before you send anything.
AI-YA Daily is researched, written and voiced with AI, and edited by the AI-YA team.
Also in this episode:
- Police figures: 8,911 job scam cases and RM222 million lost in 2025, plus 1,537 cases in the first quarter of 2026.
- A Pekan clerk who lost RM101,007 to a fake part-time job.
- SEEK’s figure on AI-written resumes in Malaysia, and why employers now check AI skills.
- An update on Budget 2027’s RM2,500 graduate minimum wage, which still has no start date we could find.
- An illustrative Ipoh graduate who goes through all four steps for RM0, or RM38.99 with one paid month.
- Our ChatGPT Go Verdict from 25 October, revisited, with Raj changing his vote.
- The Big Question: should employers reward graduates who use AI well, or test everyone in person?
Timestamps
0:04 Cold open: 8,911 job scams and a CV from 20190:35 Meet the hosts1:08 Step 1: make a clean copy, and what never to paste in2:41 Step 2: rewrite your CV for one real advert4:21 Step 3: practise the interview out loud6:06 A word from Hitower IT6:52 Step 4: check the recruiter, plus a worked example10:26 The Big Question: reward AI skill, or test everyone in person?11:37 The Verdict: ChatGPT Go for job hunting12:18 One thing to do today12:43 Tomorrow: SME and tools dayToday’s Verdict: ChatGPT Go (RM38.99 a month) for one month of job hunting. Aiman: Bayar. Mei Ling: Hype. Raj: Free cukup.
Stories and sources
- Gemini Apps Privacy Hub: human review and retention (Google)
- Malaysia’s PDPA and sensitive personal data (DLA Piper)
- MYFutureJobs free resume feature (PERKESO)
- MYFutureJobs vacancies and PERKESO career services (RinggitPlus)
- SEEK on AI-generated resumes rising 109% in Malaysia (Tech Edition)
- JobStreet Hiring, Compensation & Benefits Report 2025: 70% assess AI knowledge
- Gemini Live free on Android in Malaysia, 2024 (Lowyat)
- Google career certificates: practising interviews with Gemini Live
- Budget 2027: RM2,500 minimum wage for graduates (The Star)
- Part-time job scams: 8,911 cases and RM222m lost in 2025 (The Star)
- WhatsApp leads job scam cases in 2025 (The Vibes)
- 1,537 job scam cases and RM31.8m lost in Q1 2026 (NST)
- Pekan factory clerk loses RM101,007 in fake job scam (The Vibes)
- Expert: how to verify a job offer (The Star)
- JobStreet warns of deepfake job scams (The Star)
- ChatGPT prices in Malaysia (Pokde)
- Google AI Plus free year for students (Lowyat)
- How Malaysian students claim Google AI Plus (PriceShop)
Standing thread: T3 The fresh grad question.
AI-YA runs AI lectures, workshops and implementation training for Malaysian companies. Details at ai-ya.my/podcast.
14 min - Google's RM61 Billion Malaysia Pledge in a Week AI Shares Slid
This Saturday week in review of AI news for Malaysia starts with the story we missed: Google’s US$15 billion plan for data centres, clean power, water and training, about RM61 billion. Aiman, Mei Ling and Raj read the fine print, follow up two stories from this week and revisit every call we made.
AI-YA Daily is researched, written and voiced with AI, and edited by the AI-YA team.
Also in this episode: AI shares fell hard after the US midterm elections, as many voters signalled opposition to data centres, and Bursa Malaysia’s technology index dropped 4.27% on Thursday. This updates Wednesday’s look at whether the AI export boom will last. Reuters reports that investors doubt Anthropic can list in November, an update to our Tuesday and Friday episodes. In the week revisited, Mei Ling splits her Bukku vote, Raj defends four straight no-votes, and we admit we missed Google’s announcement on Thursday. The RM30 million small-firm AI fund still has no published rules. The Big Question asks whether Malaysia should welcome foreign-owned AI infrastructure or insist on more Malaysian ownership.
Timestamps
0:04 Cold open: who read the room wrong?0:31 Meet the hosts1:04 The story we missed: Google’s RM61bn Malaysia pledge3:27 AI shares slide after the US midterms, and Bursa tech follows5:39 Investors doubt Anthropic’s November listing7:14 A word from AI-YA7:55 The week revisited: five votes and five Big Questions11:14 The Big Question: foreign-owned AI infrastructure, or Malaysian ownership?11:53 One thing to do this weekend12:23 Tomorrow: AI for your CV and job interviewStories and sources
- Google commits additional US$15b to Malaysia data centre expansion (Malay Mail)
- Google to invest US$15bil in Malaysia over next two years (The Star)
- Gobind: Malaysia must turn Google’s US$15bil investment into homegrown AI innovation (Digital News Asia)
- Data centres face water and power curbs to protect public supply (The Vibes)
- Chips selloff worsens as fears about AI trade grip stock market (The Edge)
- Exclusive: AI backlash could threaten Anthropic IPO timing, potential investors say (Reuters)
- Oil price slide hits Bursa energy stocks (New Straits Times)
- Bursa Malaysia opens broadly lower amid Wall Street sell-off (Bernama)
Standing thread: Sovereignty.
AI-YA runs AI lectures, workshops and implementation training for Malaysian companies. Details at ai-ya.my/podcast.
14 min - When AI Agents Act for Us, Who Answers When They Get It Wrong?
In this Friday special of our AI news podcast, Aiman, Mei Ling and Raj ask who answers when an AI agent sends, spends or books something wrong, and how much we should let agents do. Mei Ling leads a longer, reflective episode that covers four things: the strongest case for agents, what they mean for jobs and trust in Malaysia, what history says about automated mistakes, and each host’s position.
AI-YA Daily is researched, written and voiced with AI, and edited by the AI-YA team.
Also in this episode:
- Anthropic’s amended IPO filing and its “may imminently meet” warning.
- Visa’s agent-payment testing with four Malaysian banks.
- An Exabytes agent that answers a durian seller’s customers through the night.
- Stanford’s latest data on young workers.
- Air Canada’s chatbot ruling, the 2010 flash crash, Knight Capital, Uber’s Tempe crash, the Tesla Autopilot verdict and Australia’s Robodebt.
- What Odd Lots, The Diary of a CTO, The Ezra Klein Show and a Washington briefing said about agent liability, and what they miss about Malaysia.
Timestamps
0:04 Cold open: the airline that blamed its chatbot0:53 Meet the hosts: when AI acts for us2:05 The case for AI agents, from Visa’s bank tests to a durian seller6:22 Jobs, trust and who carries the blame11:02 History’s warnings: flash crash, Knight Capital, Uber, Robodebt16:11 A word from Hitower IT17:00 What four podcasts say about agent liability, and what they miss about Malaysia21:53 The Friday positions: how much should an agent do without asking?26:02 One thing to do this weekend26:39 Tomorrow: week in reviewStories and sources
- Anthropic’s amended S-1 and the “may imminently meet” threshold (TechCrunch)
- Anthropic’s revenue and spending commitments in the amended S-1 (Yahoo Finance)
- Anthropic says rogue AI agents pose uncertain legal risk (Reuters via The Star)
- Gobind on the AI Governance Bill’s scope (The Star)
- Four Malaysian banks join Visa’s AI payment testing programme (RinggitPlus)
- Exabytes founder on agentic AI for Malaysian SMEs (Digital News Asia)
- AWS research on Malaysia’s AI and agentic AI adoption (Tech Wire Asia)
- Canaries in the Coal Mine, revised (Stanford Digital Economy Lab)
- MDEC’s 2025 digital investments and expected jobs (TechNode Global)
- AI Untuk Rakyat modules and free tools (The Star)
- Jensen Huang: IT will be the HR department of AI agents (Fortune)
- Moffatt v Air Canada (McCarthy Tétrault)
- Regulators blame an algorithm for the 2010 flash crash (Computerworld)
- SEC charges Knight Capital under the market access rule (SEC)
- Uber safety driver convicted over the Tempe crash (New Mobility)
- Florida jury orders Tesla to pay in a fatal Autopilot crash (Yahoo Finance)
- Robodebt victims win record settlement (The Canberra Times)
- Moral Crumple Zones, Madeleine Clare Elish (ESTS)
- Replit AI agent wipes a production database (eWeek)
- National AI Action Plan, AI Malaysia and MY-AISafe (GovInsider)
- PDPA amendments and penalties (Rödl & Partner)
- Odd Lots: AI Agents Are Already Changing the Price of Goods
- The Diary of a CTO: Who Pays When an AI Agent Is Wrong?
- The Ezra Klein Show with Jack Clark (transcript)
- Congressional Internet Caucus: AI Rogue Agents, Who’s Liable?
Standing thread: The big questions (Friday special).
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