Joyce Hooi

Joyce Hooi

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

AI companion apps such as Talkie are expected to reach US$120 million in market size this year.
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Aunt AI-gony will see you now

Chatbots are no longer just productivity tools – they’re becoming part of how we process our inner lives

At last count, Meta is said to have recruited more than 50 people to turbocharge its artificial intelligence ambitions, at least 21 of which were from rival firm OpenAI.
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Meta has an algorithm problem – just not the one it thinks it has

The tech giant, in its quest to solve cutting-edge problems, has aroused primal instincts

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The golden age of financial esoterica beckons

Fringe financial assets are joining the mainstream under a far friendlier regulatory regime

Alphabet, Meta and Amazon collectively account for more than half of global digital advertising expenditure. In the US, YouTube and Netflix respectively have the largest and second-largest share of all TV viewership.
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No country for Mad Men

The writing is on the wall for the ad industry – and it’s being written by a large-language model

Left to right: Cory Michael Smith, Steve Carell, Jesse Armstrong and Jason Schwartzman attend HBO's "Mountainhead" World Premiere in New York City.
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Billionaire fatigue: When ridicule is all we have left

We used to be sick and tired of venality. Now, we’re just tired. 

It wouldn’t be unfathomable for SingPost to get out of the local letter business entirely, given Singapore’s high rate of technology adoption and a national system that has digitally consolidated the vital government services that citizens need.
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Should SingPost stop delivering letters?

Mail volumes are down and pressure is mounting. Might be time to return letters to sender, post-haste

The Worldcoin website on a laptop arranged in Germantown, New York, US, on Monday, July 24, 2023. Worldcoin, the digital identity and crypto payments project co-founded by OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, launched on Monday. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg
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Eyes wide shut: When tech bros want to scan your eyeballs 

When you gaze long into the abyss, beware who gazes back at you