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Tech Talk
Hosted by BFM Media · EN
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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MSP364. Weird Science: Shiny, Shiny Gold And Lymph Nodes
4d ago00:41:57Tap to summarizeTime 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, researchers have developed 3D printed lymph nodes could reduce the cost and time it takes to produce custom immunotherapy treatments. And hopefully making them available to a much wider income group. Gold raises its shingly inert head. While NASA releases concrete plans for its permanently manned bases on the moon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Your Biggest Security Risk? Your Workforce
5d ago00:32:34Tap to summarizeOrganisations 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 cybersecurity challenge The Threat Landscape: How phishing has evolved with AI and what a real-world breach can look likeWhat Organisations Get Wrong: From neglecting human risk in the security budget to shadow AI quietly leaking sensitive data through free LLM tools like ChatGPT and Gemini.What Good Looks Like: The practical steps every business should take, from education to obtaining full visibility of data across your organisation.Image Credit: ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Most Businesses Use AI. Few Use It Well.
2w ago00:33:57Tap to summarizeMalaysia 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 OutAn Adoption Gap — Why AI numbers look impressive on paper, but what are the real challenges of technology in practice?The Underdog Advantage — How mid-market companies can use lean tech to out-compete global giantsLocalisation Wins — Why AI built without Malaysian culture, language, and context will always fall shortUpskilling — Why upskilling alone is not enough, and what businesses need to doSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →MSP363. Death Of The Internet
3w ago00:43:17Tap to summarizeThis 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 engagement, are the rumours about the death of the Internet finally coming true?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Your Customer Service Chatbot Needs Fixing
3w ago00:34:29Tap to summarizeIn 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 customers actually want to use, and how organisations can move beyond basic AI services to real business value.Tune In To Find OutThe ChatBot Problem: Why most Malaysian chatbots are failing and why The Expectation Gap: How AI has permanently raised expectations and why organisations fail to deliver. The Money: The financial case for getting this right The Tip of the Iceberg: Customer service is just the start. The real value of AI goes far deeper for businesses. Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow's Business Today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →MSP362. The Goblin Protocol
4w ago00:42:24Tap to summarizeVerbal 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 age, our tireless heroes battle the gremlins to discover how these quirks reveal deeper truths about the way these machines learn, and how those defects are creating a new business model: trend slop. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →The Cyber Threats You're Not Ready For
4w ago00:39:50Tap to summarizeCybercrime 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.
Transcribe →Agentic AI: 10x Speed But Lacklustre Productivity?
May 600:33:38Tap to summarizeCan 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.
Transcribe →Mag 7 Earnings, OpenAI v Anthropic, & Manus’ China Drama
Apr 2900:43:14Tap to summarizeBig 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.
Transcribe →MSP361. The Trouble With Toilets And Other Space Tales
Apr 2300:46:04Tap to summarizeArtemis 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.
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