Joyce Hooi

Joyce Hooi

The summer of 2026 was the hottest one on record for Austria and many of its European neighbours.

The lucrative business of cooling off in a hotter world

2026-10-07T04:22:17.000Z
For all the impressive strides the technology has made, large language models still make both the abysmal and the outstanding sound uncannily similar.
THINKING ALOUD

Go ahead, let AI write your performance review

2026-10-05T23:00:00.000Z
The study found that high-paying and high-revenue firms devoted more resources on meetings “despite facing a substantially higher opportunity cost of employee time”.
THINKING ALOUD

Meetings are time-consuming, but might be good for you

2026-09-29T23:00:00.000Z
In recent weeks, OpenAI and Anthropic have issued portentous warnings about the dangers their own products pose to civilisation, making vague noises about collectively slowing down development.
THINKING ALOUD

AI agents, we’re going to need to see some ID

2026-09-15T23:00:00.000Z
More than nine in 10 Singapore workers in a 2024 survey said they had worked outside of their official hours.
THINKING ALOUD

Unplugging from the Internet is becoming a luxury good

2026-07-20T23:00:00.000Z
Samsung Electronics’ reported preliminary quarterly profit surged 1,900% year on year thanks to AI-driven demand for its products.
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‘Wage envy’ between AI workers and their peers is a corporate time bomb

2026-07-13T23:00:00.000Z
With AI likely to replace human wealth managers for the mass affluent, this writer argues that the shift is not necessarily a bad one.
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AI relationships, no. AI relationship managers, yes

2026-06-29T23:15:00.000Z
Meta has removed facial-recognition code from an artificial intelligence companion app for its smart glasses.
THINKING ALOUD

The dumb choices that make smart glasses so appealing

2026-06-15T23:15:00.000Z
A pharmaceutical firm in India has launched a weight-loss injection that costs from 1,290 rupees (S$17) a month.
THINKING ALOUD

A GLP-1 tsunami is headed for the vice industry. Good.

2026-05-25T23:15:00.000Z
A study found that while using AI helped physicians to produce treatment plans faster, oncologists soon started second-guessing their own instincts.
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The 10-minute AI lobotomy is here

2026-05-11T23:00:00.000Z