Joyce Hooi

Joyce Hooi

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

I laughed at them in 2013; I might buy a pair in 2026

Gold has been doing what it said it would on the tin, becoming an asset of refuge in a time of de-dollarisation fears and geopolitical tension.
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Gold is a ‘Bad Feeling’ asset; Bitcoin is a ‘Good Feeling’ asset

Why the precious metal took off during troubled times while the cryptocurrency faceplanted in front of punters

A consortium that includes Oracle, Silver Lake and Emirati investment firm MGX will acquire a 50 per cent stake in a TikTok US joint venture
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The US’ American-ish TikTok awaits

Even as platforms splinter further for users, corporations remain bound by geopolitical ties

 OpenAI founder Sam Altman says the  "adult mode" withiin ChatGPT set to debut this quartr will feature "erotica for adults".
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ChatGPT refuses to be friendzoned

The chatbot’s impending ‘adult mode’ shows how old human impulses still drive new technology

iRobot’s undoing might have been its Chinese competitors – faster, cheaper and at times, better – but its demise was hastened by American protectionism.
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A clean sweep: How China won the war for your living room floor

The Roomba’s predicament shows how the US is the worse off for its trade dust-up with its peers

As the pace of professional displacement quickens, “reskilling” means competing with software that improves exponentially even as the human merely improves incrementally. IMAGE: PIXABAY
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When your new job description is actually a countdown timer

Accenture’s ‘reinventor’ label for its employees is coming for the rest of us

Within the vast universe of selling, entire constellations of tasks have become more transactional than relational, and these are precisely the areas where AI is now making its most aggressive inroads.
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Why AI will always be closing in on sales jobs

The question is no longer whether AI can sell – it is how many of its human peers will survive the takeover

A Polymarket billboard in Times Square in New York. Polymarket is blocked in Singapore, since it is considered to be a provider of illegal gambling.
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No one can stop the next form of legalised gambling

Prediction markets are becoming too big to be illegal; you can bet on it

Novo Nordisk has gone from being Europe’s most valuable listed company to losing more than US$300 billion in market value.
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How I knew when to start backing Novo Nordisk’s biggest rival instead

The Danish firm’s complacency is its undoing in the weight-loss drug war

AI systems that once struggled with basic analysis are already handling more sophisticated analytical work – the kind on which consulting firms have long staked their reputations.
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When AI stops hallucinating, where will that leave consultants?

The errors in Deloitte’s AI-assisted report were fixable. The existential threat to the consulting industry is not