Malaysia's largest automotive aftermarket trade show has set its targets, and the organisers have put a number on it: about RM12 million in sales transactions across three days, from roughly 350 exhibitors, in front of more than 22,000 visitors. MIAPEX 2026 — the Malaysia International Automotive & Parts Expo —...
MIAPEX 2026: 350 Exhibitors, 23-25 Oct, MIECC
MIAPEX 2026 runs from 23 to 25 October at the Malaysia International Exhibition & Convention Centre (MIECC) in Seri Kembangan, and the part a trading business should notice is the B2B half: around 350 exhibitors from ten countries, a RM12 million sales target, and two conferences running alongside the floor...
Google AI Overviews: No Special File, No Special Schema
Google has published the answer, in its own documentation, to the question a growing number of Malaysian SMEs are being invoiced for: there is no special file, no special markup and no special optimisation that gets a page into AI Overviews or AI Mode. The requirements are the ones that...
MATRADE-ICBC Malaysia MoU Backs China Export Financing
MATRADE and ICBC Malaysia exchanged a memorandum of understanding on 29 September 2026 at the Malaysia Pavilion of the 5th Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou, and the part that matters to an exporting SME is not the handshake. It is that a bank has now been attached to the...
Superintelligence Factory: What Jensen Huang Told the White House
Superintelligence factory is what Nvidia's chief executive Jensen Huang called the data centre on 29 September 2026, speaking to reporters at the White House after President Trump signed an order renaming artificial intelligence across the US federal government. The phrase reads like branding. The numbers Huang attached to it are...
B2B 正在变成 A2A：智能体成为新买家
2026年9月9日，洛杉矶会展中心。阿里巴巴国际站总裁张阔当着超过15000家美国中小企业主的面说：B2B 的未来是 A2A——Agent 对 Agent 做生意。三周之内，阿里巴巴的 AI 采购智能体月活突破一千万，买家侧智能体同时在跟二十家供应商谈判，一位浙江的29岁创业者用八个智能体、零个员工跑起了一门出口生意。这不是预测。这是已经投产、带着数字的现实。 本文另有英文版：B2B Is Becoming A2A: The Agentic Commerce Shift。 九天之后，2026年9月18日，在济南举行的第五届山东跨境电商交易会上，阿里巴巴国际站副总裁刘光俊把同一个判断讲给了一屋子出口商：跨境电商正在从 B2B（商家对商家）时代迈向 A2A（智能体对智能体）时代，下一阶段是智能体协作时代——商家只需下达业务指令，AI 就能自主完成整套业务流程，智能体之间的信息交换与交易撮合，会进一步降低全球贸易的门槛。这句话由中新社在交易会现场报道，来源链接见文末，不是我们的转述。阿里巴巴自己的数据解释了为什么这件事正在发生：越来越多的海外买家不再往搜索框里敲关键词。他们用自然语言描述需求，上传一张照片或一份 PDF，让 AI 完成趋势发现、产品打磨、供应商筛查、条款谈判和订单管理。平台上使用 AI 多模态搜索的海外买家，流量增长超过 132%。 相关活动｜B2B AI Seller Summit 2026 × MATRADE —— 含 AccioWork 马来西亚发布 2026 年 10 月 16 日（周五）13:00–17:00，吉隆坡 Menara MATRADE 三楼 MATRADE Hall。由 Alibaba.com 主办，免费入场。现场内容包括：AI...
B2B Is Becoming A2A: The Agentic Commerce Shift
Alibaba.com's president told 15,000 buyers in Los Angeles that the future of B2B is A2A — agent doing business with agent. That was 9 September 2026. Within three weeks, Alibaba's AI sourcing agent passed ten million monthly users, its buyer-side agents were holding twenty supplier negotiations at once, and a...
MSME Minimum Wage Exemption: What Employers Must Do
On 30 September 2026 the Cabinet agreed to exempt micro, small and medium enterprises from the next minimum wage increase, for the time being. If you run an SME in Malaysia, the short version is that nothing has changed about what you must pay today, and something has changed about...
Super Intelligence vs AI: What Trump’s Order Changes
The question in most people's heads on 30 September was the wrong one. The interesting story is not that a government renamed artificial intelligence. It is that the new name, super intelligence, already meant something else — something considerably more alarming — and the rename quietly collapsed that distinction. On...
OpenAI dots vs Meta Muse: What Malaysians Can Use
OpenAI used its DevDay keynote in San Francisco on 29 September to launch dots — always-on AI agents that keep working after you close the app. It was the loudest announcement of a day that carried more than twenty of them, and within hours the name was being typed into...