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Elaine Moore

Tech Comment Editor

Elaine Moore is Tech comment editor at the Financial Times. Previously, she was deputy editor of the FT’s Lex column and wrote commentary on the technology industry from the San Francisco bureau. Prior to this she covered global government debt from London, with a particular focus on the debt crisis in Greece, Ukraine and Venezuela.
Email Elaine Moore @ElaineDMoore  on X.com (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Friday, 1 May, 2026
    Technology sector
    Palantir’s latest hit softwear: a $239 chore coat

    Who cares about taste when billions of dollars are being bandied about?

    Elaine Moore
    Three Palantir-branded garments: a white T-shirt with a portrait and ‘DOMINATE’ text, a blue chore coat, and a white sweatshirt reading "SILICON VALLEY DROPOUTS PLTR TECHNOLOGIES INC. EST–2003" in red text
  • Tuesday, 7 April, 2026
    Technology sector
    The internet is deciding what to forget

    Do digital bananas in Hawaiian shirts chatting up pineapples need to be saved for posterity? Probably not

    Elaine Moore
    Image of a face with crosses for eyes and an upside-down smile, with the number 404 below it
  • Tuesday, 17 March, 2026
    Artificial intelligence
    What’s with all the AI lobsters?

    OpenClaw’s phenomenally popular agent is a reminder of pre-techlash days

    Elaine Moore
    A cartoon lobster wearing sunglasses spins a globe on the tip of its claw, playfully referencing global software reach.
  • Wednesday, 18 February, 2026
    Artificial intelligence
    Does ChatGPT think you’re Welsh too?

    In spite of glitches, the tech sector is certain that voice is the next frontier in AI

    Elaine Moore
    An illustration showing a person holding a cup and talking with a humanoid robot, both seated inside a large speech bubble.
  • Saturday, 17 January, 2026
    Media
    GTFO: Trump, Minnesota and the new rules of swearing

    Blame the vulgarity vibe shift for more profanities in public life

    Elaine Moore
    Corey Williams gestures while speaking to President Donald Trump, with Bill Ford also gesturing, during a tour of the Ford plant.
  • Wednesday, 24 December, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    No, you can’t tell when something was written by AI

    Context matters as much as content in determining whether text is machine generated or not

    Elaine Moore
    Grammarly interface showing an economics paper with highlighted text and a sidebar stating "No AI-generated text detected" and "17% of your document matches 3 external sources."
  • Thursday, 4 December, 2025
    Ecommerce
    Etsy witches face a tough business spell

    Like tarot card readings and psychics, digital magic is part of a booming metaphysical services industry

    Elaine Moore
    An illustration showing a witch with teal hair casting spells over a laptop, surrounded by pink smoke, with a black-and-white cat and a mug of frothy drink.
  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
    Technology
    Where does Wikipedia go in the age of AI?

    Crowdsourced, open edited and free, the site must seize the new technology as an opportunity

    Elaine Moore
    Illustration of a robot pulling up a chair to join three people sitting at a table adding pieces to a puzzle of the globe
  • Thursday, 18 September, 2025
    Big Data
    Is $50 a fair price for your data?

    Personal information is spilling out of us constantly — but some of it is worth more than the rest

    Elaine Moore
    A finger hovers over a touchscreen displaying a cookie consent pop-up with the ‘Accept All’ option highlighted
  • Thursday, 28 August, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    The perils of vibe coding

    AI companies want to prove productivity gains — but there’s a risk we may create software with inbuilt problems

    Elaine Moore
    A row of rubber ducks. Some developers say AI is best used as a way to talk through coding problems, a technique they call rubber ducking (after their habit of talking to the toys on their desk)
  • Thursday, 7 August, 2025
    Life & Arts
    FT Magazine. What unrestricted internet access did to Gen Z’s love life

    A cautionary tale

    Elaine Moore
    Illustration of a person sitting cross-legged inside a glass dome, looking down at a phone
  • Thursday, 24 July, 2025
    Technology
    The book that explains the billionaire doomers

    A niche investment text from the 1990s reveals why powerful tech leaders fixate on the apocalypse

    Elaine Moore
    Ann Kiernan illustration of an apocalyptic scene with a man holding his jacket looking across a dystopian landscape.
  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    Technology sector
    Here come the glassholes, part II

    Adding facial recognition to smart glasses may not prove as popular as some in Silicon Valley believe

    Elaine Moore
    Illustration of eyes looking through eye-testing equipment against a background of street map
  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2025
    US society
    A new psychedelic era dawns in America

    Magic mushrooms remain illegal in California but you wouldn’t know that from the gatherings in San Francisco

    Elaine Moore
    Magic mushrooms displayed in a colourful, computer-enhanced composite image
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    How one teenager uses AI

    Adolescent practice with new technologies can provide a form of divination for adults

    Elaine Moore
    María Hergueta illustration of a teenage girl lying on her bed talking on a mobile phone.
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    Space industry
    Billionaires want to go to space — the rest of us aren’t so sure

    The private tech race is at odds with public appetite for extravagant suborbital trips

    Elaine Moore
    Katy Perry exits the Blue Origin capsule
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Digital economy
    Storage units are the new hemline index

    Digital goods will never match the attachment felt for things in the real world

    Elaine Moore
    A person in a cardboard box slides down a red graph line
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    Tech start-ups
    Who needs revenue when you’re a multibillion-dollar AI start-up?

    Companies with no products or idea yet on how to make money are seeking huge valuations in funding deals

    Elaine Moore
  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Grok, o3 and ELMo — there’s a reason AI names are so weird

    Incoherent nomenclature is a tradition in the tech sector, where titles are often designed to amuse teams, not users

    Elaine Moore
    Grok, Deepseek, Gemini and ChatGPT logos
  • Thursday, 23 January, 2025
    Donald Trump
    Eagles, flags and a thumbs-up: what Trump’s White House website tells us

    His revamped online presence portrays the president as part action hero, part hard-nosed CEO

    Elaine Moore
    María Hergueta illustration of Donald Trump riding the American eagle, while pointing ahead
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Media
    One hundred million fans cannot make you famous

    Mass, cross-generational audiences have disappeared and even MrBeast can’t find them

    Elaine Moore
    A glittery, fizzing star dissolves in a glass of water, and a blister pack of other star capsules sits beside the glass
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    Non-Fiction
    Emily Nussbaum’s Cue the Sun! — reality TV bites

    An exploration of the history and legacy of this manipulative genre manages to navigate the silly and the serious

    A man with a red suitcase walks through the street
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Year in a word 2024
    Year in a word: Slop

    AI could build a better future — but not without proliferating spam-like, low-grade content first

    Elaine Moore
    Montage image of the word ‘slop’ and an animated person whose face is green and pixelated
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Employment
    Blame AI for your gruelling job interview

    Efforts to push back against unsuitable mass applications are turning a dispiriting situation into a miserable one

    Elaine Moore
    Andy Carter illustration of an applicant sat in front of rows of interviewers set up one behind the other
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    AI Exchange
    Interview. Otter.ai’s Sam Liang: We can unlock valuable data from meetings and conversations

    Co-founder of transcription start-up reckons we can even let avatars take our place in work interactions

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