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Where would your business be in 10 years time? How about 5 years from now? Or even tomorrow? Chances are, you’re already in the age of a digital business. Tech Talk is the programme that gives you access to the minds that are shaping the world of tomorrow. Hear from global and regional experts and analyst, record breaking developers, the dark-web hackers and the “crazy ones” as they give you an insight to how the world will change. Tech Talk helps you to breakdown the geeky jargons and complex codes that many often would fear. Also find out what are some the latest consumer offerings like smartphones, drones, robots, cameras, video games that are best in the market and quirky insight to a mind of a digital pop culture technology advocater, Richard Bradbury.

  1. 22 HR AGO

    $100K AI Bills? 4 Drivers of Token Bill Shock

    Is your company’s AI strategy a ticking financial time bomb? While consumer subscriptions offer "subsidised intelligence," the transition to enterprise agents like OpenClaw is exposing businesses to "AI bill shocks" and context window bloat.  From the hidden mechanics of token-based billing to the capital expenditure of moving models on-premise, Daren Tan of ALPHV Technologies joins Tech Talk to unpack how to scale AI without breaking the bank. Learn More About: Token Billing Mechanics: AI costs are driven by "tokens", broken-down text fragments, where input data (prompts/PDFs) and output responses are billed at different rates depending on the model's reasoning complexity. The "Context Window" Bloat: As chat histories grow, LLMs re-process the entire conversation for every new prompt, exponentially increasing costs. Daren recommends starting fresh threads to prevent "context rot" and wasted spend. Four Pillars of Bill Shock: Organisations face financial risk from 24/7 agentic loops, "agentic checking" (AI verifying AI), and the illusion that enterprise API costs mirror $20 consumer subscriptions. Model Routing & Caching: Strategic cost-saving involves "model routing", sending simple tasks to cheaper "Nano" models, and utilising prompt caching to receive up to 90% discounts on recurring queries. The On-Premise Pivot: When cloud costs become commercially unviable, shifting to local hardware (like Nvidia DGX systems) offers fixed costs and mandatory data sovereignty for regulated industries, albeit with significant upfront Capex. The Governance Gap: Deploying autonomous agents like OpenClaw without strict oversight can grant AI full access to file systems, creating critical security vulnerabilities and credential risks. Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow's Business Today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    35 min

  2. 6 DAYS AGO

    MSP358. Back To Basic: The Universal Town Square

    Free buses, childcare, broadband and housing; who decides what makes a universal basic right? This week, Matt and Roshan discuss Universal Basic Services and begin a two-part conversation on social resilience, post scarcity abundance, and the techno utopians battling to shape and profit from the future. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    43 min

  3. 11 MAR

    Shadow AI & The True Cost Of LLMs

    Employees leaking company secrets. Traceability gaps blocking production. 74% of organisations regret their AI vendors. The rush to adopt artificial intelligence is creating massive blindspots. Daren Tan of ALPHV Technologies joins Tech Talk to unpack the expensive realities of enterprise AI deployment and how to stop "Shadow AI" in its tracks. Learn More About: The Shadow AI Threat: Employees using free-tier consumer AI tools pose a massive cybersecurity risk, requiring strict endpoint management and enterprise legal contracts to prevent proprietary data leaks. Escaping Pilot Purgatory: Enterprise AI projects often fail to scale because leaders chase consumer-level "magic" without engineering for compliance, traceability, and localised hardware costs. Traceability & Explainability: Organisations must build step-by-step reporting tools to justify AI decisions (such as rejecting a bank loan) to ensure accountability when system errors occur. The "Human in the Loop" Safeguard: To manage unpredictable edge cases, companies must deploy fail-safes and manual override triggers that pause autonomous workflows when model performance degrades. Agentic AI & Open Claw: The next frontier of enterprise automation involves autonomous AI agents executing complex device-level tasks, driving a surge in localised processing hardware like Mac Studios to avoid staggering cloud token costs. Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow's Business Today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    34 min

  4. 5 MAR

    MSP357. Weird Science: Fungus, Rocks And Brains On Chips

    There’s a new sheriff in town. Can Roshan Kanesan bring the outlaw Matt Armitage to heel? It’s unlikely when you consider that the first topic today is Wetware, where brains on chips learn to play the classic game Doom and biocomputing enters the cloud.  Matt also outlines plans to fell millions of hectares of the Arctic’s boreal forest and sink them in the ocean in the name of saving the planet. And the weird lessons we can learn from fungus eating ants and rocks about carbon sequestration.  All of this as cover, just to make batteries sound exciting. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    46 min

  5. 4 MAR

    Has AI “Solved” Coding?

    AI can now write software, debug systems, and generate entire applications in minutes. Some technologists are even claiming that coding is effectively “solved.” But if AI can write the code, what happens to software engineers? Do we still need to learn programming? And why are companies still struggling to find technical talent? On this episode of Tech Talk, we speak with Sharma Lachu, Founder and CEO of Accendo Technologies, about whether AI has truly solved coding, how teams can maximise productivity with AI tools, and what the future looks like for developers and engineers in an AI-driven world. Tech Talk is brought to you by Maxis Business. Building Tomorrow's Business Today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    42 min

  6. 26 FEB

    MSP356: The Karaoke Cash Crunch

    We’re back in the land of the weird. A former karaoke company eats $17bn of trucking stocks. Claude’s 60-year-old coding skills see the COBOL cowboys ride off into the sunset as they wipe $30bn from IBM’s stock in a single day. Microsoft flexes its superhuman powers to etch our history in glass, and erect a real life Fortress of Solitude.  Oh, and Hollywood loses its mind over ByteDance’s text to video model Seedance 2.0, which allows any casual user to make the blockbuster of their dreams. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    45 min

  7. 25 FEB

    5G-AI Convergence: Building The Smart Enterprise

    In 2026, the convergence of 5G and AI is shifting businesses from reacting to problems to predicting them. As networks get faster and intelligence becomes embedded into operations, enterprises are beginning to rethink how they manage supply chains, improve efficiency, and make decisions in real time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    50 min

  8. 19 FEB

    MSP355 This Isn’t A Test

    Instead of talking about equitable societies, AI has once again decided we have to revert to the ‘world in peril’ format. A safety lead at Anthropic quits to pursue a future in poetry, while the US Defence Secretary seeks to label the company a risk to national security. While using those same technologies for classified military operations. But don’t worry, we’ve got some light relief in the shape of martial robots dancing on TV. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    41 min
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Where would your business be in 10 years time? How about 5 years from now? Or even tomorrow? Chances are, you’re already in the age of a digital business. Tech Talk is the programme that gives you access to the minds that are shaping the world of tomorrow. Hear from global and regional experts and analyst, record breaking developers, the dark-web hackers and the “crazy ones” as they give you an insight to how the world will change. Tech Talk helps you to breakdown the geeky jargons and complex codes that many often would fear. Also find out what are some the latest consumer offerings like smartphones, drones, robots, cameras, video games that are best in the market and quirky insight to a mind of a digital pop culture technology advocater, Richard Bradbury.

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    BFM Media
  • Years Active
    2010 - 2026
  • Episodes
    2K
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