Generative AI is set to touch the working lives of nearly 80 million people across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, according to a new International Labour Organization study released this week, but the report’s central finding cuts against the more alarmist predictions that have circulated around AI and employment. According to ILO estimates for…
Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Malaysia’s national electricity utility, has built what it describes as the country’s first agentic AI defense system for critical infrastructure, and the target it was built to fight is not a hacker or a foreign adversary. It’s illegal cryptocurrency mining, a form of energy theft that TNB estimates drains roughly RM640 million…