Tech Talk

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 look at some of the emerging movements coalescing these fears into movements.

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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 do, where do tomorrow's senior engineers come from?

Dr Mirza Rayana Sanzana, a lecturer in the School of Information Technology at Monash University Malaysia, explains what AI-generated coding means for software engineering and why the human touch still matters.

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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?

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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 with no real purpose waiting for evolution to

run its course. Matt and Kishan explore the purpose of

humanity in a world where AI agents run the show.

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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 will take to build a sustainable data centre ecosystem for the long run.

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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 genuinely scary.

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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?

And what should we here in Malaysia be paying attention to?

Dr. Gang Lu, Founder and CEO of TechNode, which includes TN Media that focuses on Chinese technology, startups, and venture capital, takes us inside China’s technology ecosystem.

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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 Singapore on the research and academic side, and Ben Mudie, Field CTO for Asia Pacific and Japan at Tenable, on the cybersecurity industry side.

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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 itself, or our general technological malaise?

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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 longer be treated as separate and why it's important to spot potential cyberattacks before they occur.

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