Digital

Sam Altman Calls for Urgent Global AI Regulation as India Surges

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has never been shy about the scale of artificial intelligence. But in New Delhi this week, his tone sharpened. Speaking at the AI Impact Summit, Altman said the world “urgently” needs coordinated AI regulation and floated the idea of a global body modelled on the International

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Airbnb Says AI Chatbot Traffic Is Converting Better Than Google

For years, digital marketing strategy revolved around one assumption: if you win Google search, you win discovery. That assumption is now being quietly rewritten. Airbnb’s latest earnings commentary signals a structural shift in how consumers begin their purchase journeys. According to CEO Brian Chesky, traffic arriving from AI chatbot platforms

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Reddit Is Quietly Becoming Malaysia’s Most Influential “Human Internet”

In Malaysia’s crowded social-media ecosystem — dominated by TikTok videos, Instagram reels, and algorithmic feeds — an unlikely platform is gaining strategic importance among digitally savvy consumers and marketers alike: Reddit. Once perceived as a niche forum for tech enthusiasts, Reddit has steadily evolved into a significant discovery and discussion

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AI Safety Resignations Signal Industry Red Alert

The global artificial intelligence race has long been framed as a contest for speed, talent and capital. Increasingly, however, it is also becoming a contest of conscience. This week, the resignation of a senior safety researcher from AI company Anthropic has triggered fresh debate about whether the industry’s ethical guardrails

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Malaysia’s First Large Language Model based Synthetic Data Intelligence Platform with Agentic function, AxxonAI launched with healthcare partner Sancy Bhd

Athenatech AI Sdn Bhd (athenatech.ai ), one of Malaysia’s top six AI start-ups to watch, today announced the launch of subsidiary AxxonAI (axxonai.com), a Large Language Model (LLM) based synthetic data intelligence platform. This milestone positions AxxonAI as the first Malaysian company to offer this capability, addressing the growing challenges

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When Brands Hide Behind AI, Malaysians Push Back

By Ellison Fernandez, Executive Creative Director, Dentsu Creative Malaysia AI is no longer the bright-eyed intern drafting captions and generating novelty images. In Malaysia, it now sits quietly behind consequential brand decisions on pricing, recommendations, refunds, moderation, and everyday service interactions. Yet as adoption grows, so does fatigue. Beyond general

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