News & Reviews:   Artificial Intelligence

Coming soon on 21 October 2025, Samsung is set to usher in what the company calls “a new era of multimodal AI.” The announcement arrived with the promise of a landmark shift in how Samsung’s technology interacts with the world – an evolution toward devices built around artificial intelligence from the ground up.

Ransomware remains a devastating cyber threat, involving organizations from healthcare to education and governments to corporations. Today, Google Cloud announced a new, AI-powered defense for Google Drive particularly for Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows files.

AI chatbot companies are constantly looking for new ways to make use of the technology. Typically, these platforms respond when you insert a prompt, which makes them reactive. But OpenAI is aiming for a more proactive version with its new ChatGPT Pulse.

Generative AI is utilised in various aspects today. We use these platforms to help summarise and discover solutions to our problems and perform other tasks. For instance, NotebookLM helps with research and studying. The latest update adds new features to help students study better.

The digital frustrations of a faulty search bar, the logistical headaches of maintaining consistent service across a vast hotel network, and the operational inefficiencies of traditional workflows are all too familiar. As customer expectations are on the rise in Malaysia, these issues can be a silent killer of sales and a major blow to brand reputation.

However, a glimpse into an AI-powered future is already underway just across the causeway. In Singapore, Gill Capital Group (powering brands like H&M in Indonesia and Thailand), Frasers Hospitality, and FairPrice Group are leveraging Google Cloud agentic solutions to tackle these very challenges head-on. These could provide a blueprint for how Malaysian counterparts in similar industries could also utilise such features.

The Malaysian company formerly known as MyEG, Zetrix AI Bhd recently introduced NurAI, which is a Shariah?compliant AI chatbot. Available for free for now (paid plans start from RM20 to RM200 per month and are coming soon), you can download it for both Android and iOS.

Tired of traditional storybooks for children? Most people won't ever think of this, but some may want to create their own stories. If that's you, this piece of news could be interesting for you. Yesterday, Google announced a new generative feature for Gemini AI.

Deepfake and artificial intelligence (AI) powered scams have caused financial losses nearing RM4.2 billion globally to date. In the first half of 2025 alone, losses from deepfake fraud reached RM1.92 billion.

With deepfake scam losses expected to only get worse, is it finally time to restrict access to subscription for Generative AI? How?

AI tools like ChatGPT are gaining popularity. They can write, answer questions, help with school work, or even create songs and pictures. Some people are excited, but others feel nervous. It's normal to wonder what's real and what's not.

The first time I tried Google Veo 3 and Flow to make a more than 8-seconds video, I came up against problems with consistency. This meant that throughout my videos, my character sometimes didn't have the same clothes, hairstyle or even voice.

For today's topic, we made this guide on How to get consistent characters in Google Veo 3 and Flow, so do read on.