Joyce Hooi

Joyce Hooi

With AI likely to replace human wealth managers for the mass affluent, this writer argues that the shift is not necessarily a bad one.
THINKING ALOUD

AI relationships, no. AI relationship managers, yes

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

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.

A study found that while using AI helped physicians to produce treatment plans faster, oncologists soon started second-guessing their own instincts.
THINKING ALOUD

The 10-minute AI lobotomy is here

Even the mere prospect of a leak will put Anthropic under unrelenting scrutiny over its fitness as a custodian of a system as powerful as Mythos, says the writer.
THINKING ALOUD

Anthropic risks shooting itself in the foot with Mythos

As more companies turn to chatbot-flogging as a proxy for productive AI adoption, a plethora of unintended consequences will thrive.
THINKING ALOUD

‘Tokenmaxxing’ your way to a zero-day work week

Without the threat of a genuine "no" vote, shareholders are eventually left with the illusion of choice between similarly overpaid executives at different firms.
HOCK LOCK SIEW

A formal ‘say on pay’ may be more effective than better disclosure

A growing chunk of ticket sales does not accrue to the people we pay to watch onstage or the companies that put them there.
THINKING ALOUD

The ‘Squid Game economics’ of being a fan

When someone does actually sound the alarm over a legitimate threat to our well-being from AI, nobody will hear it since we might have collectively tuned out by then.
THINKING ALOUD

If everything is an AI crisis, then nothing is

Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica more than tripled sales of its Meta AI glasses in 2025, selling more than seven million units.
THINKING ALOUD

The rose-tinted inevitability of smart glasses