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  • Friend AI Pendant Relaunch: Lessons for Malaysian SMEs

    Your Customers Are Watching How You Handle Criticism You might have seen the headlines about a small AI pendant that lets you talk into it and get a voice back. It was mocked widely, the brand became a punchline, and now it’s back with a speaker and a bigger ask for users. For a Malaysian…

  • The AI Pendant Debacle: 4 Lessons for Malaysian SMEs

    Your Next AI Purchase Deserves More Scrutiny Than This Pendant Got Picture this: a startup raises US$2.5 million, then burns US$1.8 million of it on a single domain name. It launches an AI gadget that becomes a public punchline. Nine months and one protest later, it relaunches the same product with one new feature —…

  • Robots That Think: What Gemini Robotics 2 Means for MY SMEs

    Your Next Employee Might Not Have a Pulse You’re running a business in Malaysia. Your day is a marathon: stock counts that never end, supplier calls, customer follow-ups, and deliveries that seem to mock your timeline. Now imagine handing the most repetitive of those tasks to a machine that doesn’t take MC, doesn’t ask for…

  • Whole-Body Robots Are Coming: What MY SMEs Should Know

    The Robot News That Almost Went Over Your Head You run a business in Malaysia—maybe a food supplier, a spare parts distributor, a cleaning service. You wake up to rising costs, staff who don’t show up, and orders that pile up. The last thing on your mind is what Google’s AI division did with a…

  • LinkedIn Fights AI Slop: A Survival Guide for MY Businesses

    The Day LinkedIn Officially Judged Your Content Imagine this: a procurement manager in Penang lands on your company’s LinkedIn post. They tap the three-dot menu, select one option, and the platform quietly confirms: “Thanks, we’ll show fewer posts like this.” That option now literally reads “Seems like AI slop.” For Malaysian SMEs who have been…

  • LinkedIn’s AI Slop Button: Post Like a Human or Get Flagged

    Your LinkedIn posts are being judged — not just by your readers, but by LinkedIn itself. Let’s be honest. In the last few months, how many times have you scrolled through LinkedIn and past a post that felt… robotic? Something like: “In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses must leverage innovation to unlock growth.” Sound familiar?…

  • AI Slop Is Flooding LinkedIn: What Malaysian SMEs Must Do Now

    AI Slop Is Flooding LinkedIn: What Malaysian SMEs Must Do Now

    Your LinkedIn feed is filling up with junk. Here’s what to do about it. Scroll through your LinkedIn feed right now. How many posts feel like they were written by a robot rather than a real person? That generic “5 lessons I learned in 2025” post. The one that starts with “In my 20 years…

  • What Spotify’s User Notes Teach You About Customer Loyalty

    What Spotify’s User Notes Teach You About Customer Loyalty

    Your Customers Don’t Remember Transactions. They Remember Moments. Think about the last time a regular customer walked into your shop or pinged you on WhatsApp. What do you actually remember about them? Their face, maybe. What they usually order. But do you remember why they first came to you? What conversation happened the day they…