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China is rapidly industrialising AI-generated video as falling costs and improving models drive adoption across short dramas, advertising, e-commerce and digital content.
Bank Negara Malaysia is absorbing excess conventional and Islamic money-market liquidity to keep short-term interbank rates stable.
Malaysia’s market regulators are considering standardised competency and accountability rules for company secretaries as governance expectations rise across listed issuers.
A coalition of leaders from more than 20 countries has called for stronger international safeguards around advanced artificial intelligence, signalling that the next phase of the technology investment cycle may be shaped as much by governance as by computing capacity. The appeal, issued as world leaders gather for United Nations meetings, asks companies to make safety testing more transparent and subject frontier systems to independent evaluation.
Hong Kong and mainland exchanges are competing for China’s technology listings, reshaping access to global capital, domestic liquidity and valuations.
Accenture and Anthropic’s non-exclusive partnership aims to expand embedded model evaluation, while standards, independence and commercial outcomes remain important tests.
Targeted incentives and stronger company access could broaden institutional interest in Malaysian mid-cap stocks, but the proposals are not enacted policy.
Malaysia’s projected 4.3% annual growth through 2035 puts semiconductor upgrading, talent and reliable energy at the centre of investment decisions.
Gold and Bitcoin are beginning to diverge as rising Treasury yields and tighter financial conditions test whether investors truly view both assets as equivalent hedges against currency debasement.
Former Google DeepMind researcher Bilal Chughtai has warned that advanced AI could pose an existential threat, adding to calls for slower frontier-model development and stronger safeguards.
