**Sliema startup’s ‘study buddy’ AI promises to turn Malta into the Mediterranean’s smartest island** The bell at the University of Malta’s Msida campus hasn’t even finished echoing across the quadrangle when a knot of students outside the library already have their phones out. But they’re not scrolling TikTok – they’re talking to “Ari”, a new…
From smoky back-room card games in Valletta alleyways to the gleaming glass towers of St Julian’s hosting global iGaming giants, Malta’s relationship with gambling has always been intimate, entrepreneurial and—above all—fast-moving. Today, the island commands 10% of the world’s remote-gaming market, yet the journey from church-hall tombola to blockchain-based casinos is a tale woven with…
**Local engineer uses AI to turn Malta’s 200-year-old constitution into a WhatsApp-forward that even nanna understands** By [Hot Malta Staff] VALLETTA – When software engineer Luke Camilleri tried to explain to his 82-year-old grandmother why she was entitled to a new pension supplement, he ended up chasing her around the kitchen with a 96-page PDF…
**How Crypto and Stablecoins are Quietly Revolutionising Maltese Business – From Valletta Start-ups to Gozo Farmhouses** By *Hot Malta* Staff Writer Walk down Republic Street on a Saturday afternoon and you’ll still hear the clink of euros on café counters, but behind the scenes Malta’s economy is quietly morphing into something the Knights could never…
A sleek grey quadcopter lifts off above the Grand Harbour, its four rotors humming like an oversized wasp. From the Upper Barrakka Gardens, tourists point their phones skyward, expecting another influencer’s sunset reel. Instead, the drone suddenly freezes mid-air, shudders, and executes a neat U-turn back to the helipad of a nondescript white van parked…
The Evolution of Stablecoins and Their Adoption Across Industries: A Maltese Perspective By [Your Name], Hot Malta Correspondent VALLETTA – While tourists still queue for pastizzi at Is-Serkin, a quieter revolution is unfolding inside the limestone offices that line Strait Street. Malta, the self-styled “Blockchain Island,” is witnessing a second wave of digital-asset adoption—this time…
Valletta’s 17th-century alleys echo with more than church bells these days; they hum with Slack pings, crypto debates and the clatter of takeaway coffee cups. Walk into any converted palazzo on Merchant Street and you’ll find Swedish UX designers, Brazilian data scientists and Maltese mums on flex-time, all coding the next blockbuster slot or live-dealer…
US TikTok Deal Edges Closer: What a Ban-or-Sale Could Mean for Malta’s 300,000-Strong User Base By Hot Malta Staff Valletta – When US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Sunday that Washington is “very close” to a final agreement forcing TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to sell or face a nationwide ban, the headline…
The future is closer than you think A Maltese dawn breaks over a skyline that would have looked like science-fiction to our grandparents. Silent electric ferries glide across Valletta’s Grand Harbour, their batteries charged by the same sun that now powers three out of every ten rooftops on the archipelago. Drones buzz above the Three…
**Eight Seconds and Dropping? Can You Hold Out Longer?** It’s 7:43 a.m. on a Tuesday in Msida. The bus app swears your ride is “8 min away,” yet the dot on the map hasn’t budged since Żebbuġ. You open TikTok “just quickly.” Eight seconds later—yes, researchers at the University of Malta measured it—you’re scrolling past…
# Journalism in an uncertain age: Malta’s newsrooms navigate AI, lawsuits and a public that scrolls faster than it reads Valletta – The telex machine that once clattered away in *Times of Malta*’s old Fleet Street newsroom has been replaced by a Slack channel ping, but the existential question hanging over Maltese journalism is louder…
AI and Malta’s future – how the islands can surf the silicon wave without wiping out By [Hot Malta Staff] Smart traffic lights that speak Maltese, ferry timetables that rewrite themselves when the sirocco whips up the waves, a digital twin of Valletta that lets planners test pedestrian schemes before a single limestone block is…
