KBS empowering ILKBS trainers with AI

THE Youth and Sports Ministry (KBS) has taken a step forward in strengthening the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Programme by training instructors from the Youth and Sports Skills Training Institutes (ILKBS) to use artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Youth and Sports Minister Hannah Yeoh said the two-day AI training, which began yesterday, was…

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BAM unveils squad for Asian Junior meet in Indonesia

2024 World Junior Championships doubles finalists Dania Sofea Zaidi and Low Zi Yu have been named in the Malaysian girls team for the upcoming Badminton Asia Junior Championships (BAJC), scheduled to take place in Solo, Indonesia from July 18 to 27. Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM), in a statement today, said the newly crowned Slovak…

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C-Suite misalignment slows GenAI adoption

KUALA LUMPUR: NTT Data, a global leader in digital business and technology services, yesterday launched its new report The AI Security Balancing Act: From Risk to Innovation, highlighting the opportunities and risks AI presents in cybersecurity. The findings show a misalignment among C-Suite leaders when it comes to business goals and operational readiness for GenAI…

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Alliance Bank launches Sarawak SME ESG Report

KUCHING: Alliance Bank Malaysia Bhd recently launched its inaugural report titled Navigating ESG In Sarawak: Insights From SMEs (Sarawak SME ESG Report), a landmark initiative aimed at advancing the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) agenda among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sarawak. The Sarawak SME ESG Report was developed through a comprehensive study conducted…

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What happens when you feed AI nothing

If you stumbled across Terence Broad’s AI-generated artwork (un)stable equilibrium on YouTube, you might assume he’d trained a model on the works of the painter Mark Rothko – the earlier, lighter pieces, before his vision became darker and suffused with doom. Like early-period Rothko, Broad’s AI-generated images consist of simple fields of pure color, but…

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Crypto Daybook Americas: Bitcoin Holds the Line as Trump Labels Iran Leader ‘Easy Target’

By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin (BTC) is hovering a smidgen under $105,000 having dropped just 1.4% in the past 24 hours as crypto markets balanced the Israel-Iran war with regulatory progress in the U.S. Tensions in the Middle East are heightening after President Donald Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender”…

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