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K. Kathirgugan

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Sep 28, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Free Malaysia Today
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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · K. Kathirgugan

    Slow AI down? No. Give it a kill switch? Yes (opens the original)

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    In every factory I’ve seen, when a machine mangled someone’s hand, nobody proposed banning machines. They fitted a guard, wired in an emergency stop, and got the line running again by the next shift, and that, in a sentence, is what we should do with AI. Let me first dispose of the proposed pause to AI development. A licence written in Washington binds only American companies, the best Chinese model sits a mere 2.7% behind America’s best, and AI is already sequencing tumours and catching sepsis,

  2. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · K. Kathirgugan

    5 rules to ensure data centres benefit everyday Malaysians (opens the original)

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    Johor now commands the largest data centre pipeline in the entire Asia Pacific, a staggering 8,542 megawatts of incoming capacity, according to property consultancy Knight Frank. Nationally, Malaysia approved 143 data centre projects worth RM144.4 billion between 2021 and the middle of 2025. Yet the mood is curdling, with Malaysians asking the same questions Americans asked five years ago: will these server farms drink our water, hog our electricity and then hand us the bill? Here’s the good new

  3. Article · Aug 8, 2026 · K. Kathirgugan

    Malaysia’s next boom is buried in its soil (opens the original)

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    Malaysian farming has never been short of sweat. What it has been short of is data. This week, that started to change. On Aug 3, the agriculture department launched the Smart Irrigation Monitoring System, or SIMS, announced in Putrajaya by its director-general Nor Sam Alwi. SIMS crunches temperature, humidity, wind speed and solar radiation through the Penman-Monteith FAO 56 formula, the international gold standard for calculating how much water a crop actually needs. Any farmer who registers ge

  4. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · K. Kathirgugan

    A RM20 million bet in Sepang could crack China’s battery stranglehold (opens the original)

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    The most important part of an electric vehicle (EV) is not the motor, the software or the badge. It is the battery, typically the single costliest component in the car. And until now, every EV sold in Malaysia has had a battery born somewhere else, mostly in China. In a modest 15,000 square foot facility in Suria Industrial Park, Sepang, a company called Gigafactory Malaysia will begin small-scale production of a graphene-enhanced lithium-ion battery, according to a report by Nikkei Asia. The te

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