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Thinking Aloud

Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Company-level gains aside, work-from-home options reduce strain on public infrastructure too

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.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

When AI stops hallucinating, where will that leave consultants?

We have become too used to weighing up the pros and cons, looking at the dollars and cents when it comes to making life decisions, such as marriage, says the writer.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Is marriage just another high-risk investment?

Chinese car companies focus on palatial cabins, hospital-grade air filtration and other indulgences.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Europe’s car giants are solving the wrong problem. And China knows it

South Korea is hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum this year. A meeting on the sidelines between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping could improve their beleaguered relationship.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Hints of Xi-Trump rapprochement while Apec slides into irrelevance

Financial products are likely to get more complex – and not simpler – over time
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Independent body needed to provide guidance to investors for complex products

A makeshift memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Phoenix, Arizona. While partisan disagreement is as old as the republic, today’s polarisation represents a qualitatively different phenomenon.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

The deeper divide: America’s political polarisation crisis

Patients at Singapore's Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. According to the NUS-MOH study, medicines and medical products account for about a third of the Singapore healthcare system emissions.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Shining a much-needed light on Singapore’s healthcare carbon emissions

In his address at the opening of the 15th Parliament on Sept 5, President Tharman Shanmugaratnam said that Singapore must foster an outgoing and experimental spirit among its enterprises and people, as this is the way to have leading firms and good jobs for Singaporeans.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Ministries’ new-term plans may seem broad, but do foreshadow specific moves

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.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Meta has an algorithm problem – just not the one it thinks it has

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