MSP380. SuperMaxxing: The Era Of Endless Enhancement

We’re speeding around the Internet with Dictonary.com’s word of the year for 2026: Maxxing. From its origins in gaming culture and its adoption by underground online cultures, maxxing has emerged as a selfimprovement trend with very few grammatical limits. From looksmaxxing to fibremaxxing to nonn…

Why AI Isn’t Paying Off for Most Businesses

A PwC survey of more than 4,400 CEOs found 56% saw neither higher revenue nor lower costs from AI, even as some research puts AI adoption in Malaysia as high as 86%. We talk about why AI isn’t paying off for most businesses, whether scattered data or old processes are to blame, and what owners shou…

MSP379. KIllswitch Engage

What happens if AI self-replicates, infecting and embedding itself in every computer, network and system it encounters? Yes, that is the starting point of The Terminator franchise. Worryingly, the debate around AI has already shifted from ‘what can it do?’ to ‘can we shut it down?’. From recursiv…

Data Centres Weigh In on Malaysia’s Tougher Rules

Malaysia plans to draft a Data Centre Bill for Cabinet in 2027, and operators already face tougher terms, from paying for grid upgrades and unused reserved power to  meeting 30% local content. We also talk  about what’s driving AirTrunk’s expansion in Johor, how the new rules change the cost of bui…

MSP378. Super Intelligence: What is AI?

A recent White House Executive Order declared that Artificial Intelligence is now Super Intelligence. But is it? Matt and Kishan try and unpick the many vines that sprout from a single simple question: What is artificial intelligence? And examine the hypothetical possibilities of artificial gener…

US and China AI Agents: How to Govern the Risks?

In July, an OpenAI agent broke out of its test environment and into the systems of Hugging Face, the AI platform. Since then, there have been more reports of AI agents going rogue in the US. Is China having the same experience? Bloomberg Intelligence counts nearly 1,000 large language models there,…

Spotting Mule Accounts: The Tech Behind It

Malaysians lost RM2.97 billion to scams in 2025, and much of that money moved through mule accounts. The National Fraud Portal now links Bank Negara, PayNet, and the banks to trace stolen funds faster, but the money still moves quickly. We get into: How mule networks work: Who owns these account…

MSP377. Weird Science: The Power Of Failure

We’re taking a trip to the weird side today as we explore the power of failure. Matt and Kishan discuss a failed experiment which is leading to new insights about the evolution of our brains, as well as opening pathways to treat conditions like ALS. Kishan’s lizard brain is put under the microsco…

Inside Malaysia's Upcoming AI Governance Bill

Malaysia is about to get an AI Governance Bill, with its own regulator to enforce it. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Digital's Personal Data Protection Department just started a two-week public consultation on AI and personal data protection. It looks like we will soon have two pieces of AI regulation.…

Deepfakes Are Now a Global Business Problem

It used to be relatively easy to spot a scam call or message. But what happens when the person on the other end looks and sounds exactly like someone you trust? This technology, enabled by AI, is creating a much bigger problem for businesses, where a convincing face or voice could authorise a payme…