By Triton Dsouza, Chief Business Officer, SEA, Netcore Cloud The consumer landscape in Malaysia is evolving at an unprecedented pace. With one of the highest mobile penetration rates in the region, convenience is no longer a perk—it’s the bare minimum. Today’s Malaysian consumers expect seamless digital journeys and instant gratification
By The Malketeer For two decades, marketers have chased Google rankings, pouring budgets into SEO and SEM. But what happens when consumers stop searching and start asking AI? That’s the future Havas Media Network (HMN) UK is preparing for with the launch of Brand Insights AI, a new tool that
By The Malketeer Malaysians are adopting artificial intelligence at record speed with daily usage jumping from 75% in 2024 to 89% this year, according to Telenor Asia’s Digital Lives Decoded 2025: Building Trust in Malaysia’s AI Future report. AI is no longer an occasional convenience for Malaysians. It’s part of
By The Malketeer At the ASEAN AI Malaysia Summit 2025, YTL AI Labs took centre stage to unveil ILMU (Intelek Luhur Malaysia Untukmu), Malaysia’s first homegrown multimodal large language model (LLM). But it was their android ambassador, Terry, who unexpectedly became the evening’s headline—by falling silent mid-presentation in front of
By The Malketeer In a move set to reshape customer engagement in Asia’s most dynamic markets, AnyMind Group has extended its AI-powered customer service platform, AnyChat, to WhatsApp. Already a household name for messaging in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, WhatsApp’s vast reach — over three billion monthly
By The Malketeer Malaysia’s retail engine shows no signs of slowing, fuelled by surging digital transactions and festive cheer. According to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), the country’s wholesale and retail trade clocked in a robust 4.8% year-on-year growth in June 2025, hitting RM153 billion in sales — with
By The Malketeer Over the last couple of weeks, something insidious slithered into the digital bloodstream of Malaysian media. Disguised as a legitimate YouTube commercial, it featured none other than Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, calmly endorsing what seemed like a government-backed investment platform. The video was polished. Convincing. Seemingly real.
By The Malketeer At a time when AI-generated misinformation is advancing faster than policy can catch up, Malaysia’s Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo is taking bold steps to confront the threat head-on. In a parliamentary session this week, Gobind unveiled the government’s development of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to
By The Malketeer A recent video circulating on Malaysian social media has stirred widespread outrage—and now, official scrutiny. The clip, allegedly featuring local “influencers” offering food waste to a homeless man, has prompted the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to launch a formal investigation. In its statement, MCMC did
By The Malketeer “Billionaires versus billionaires.” That’s how US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers described the latest Silicon Valley spectacle playing out in her courtroom. The ongoing legal slugfest between Elon Musk and Sam Altman has all the makings of a prestige Netflix series: betrayal, ideology, billions of dollars, and
