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Malaysia is stepping up its push into artificial intelligence with a new initiative to train 300000 Malaysians in AI-related skills by 2029. The programme is a collaboration between MyDIGITAL Corporation and Oracle, aimed at accelerating the country’s digital transformation and building a future-ready workforce.

AI is certainly the trend of 2024 but it could be bad news for many Malaysian workers across the nation. According to a report by Talentcorp, up to 600,000 workers from 10 key industries could lose their jobs to AI.

Chinese subsidiary Canon Information Technology might have gone too far managing its employees. The firm is putting its employees under surveillance with AI-enabled smile recognition cameras that only let the smiling ones enter rooms or book meetings. This is probably one of the most dystopic ways used to enhance the workplace culture.

Just recently over the weekend, there was another controversy of logistics workers damaging items by throwing the packages. Seven of them were caught red-handed and belong to J&T Express in Perak, which assumed to have their salary deducted as punishment but it has been sorted out. In case you missed the drama, here's what happened.