Elaine Moore

San Francisco

Deputy Lex Editor at Financial Times

Deputy Lex Editor at Best of Lex Newsletter

Tech Comment Editor for the FT. Reading and writing about tech from London. https://t.co/s7jhHwFzgf

Articles

How one teenager uses AI

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Elaine Moore

When 16-year-old Lara Jeetley checks her phone in the morning she scrolls through the messages her friends have sent her and then, if...
Billionaires want to go to space — the rest of us aren’t so sure

1 month ago | ft.com | Elaine Moore

Pop star Katy Perry returned to Earth from her short trip aboard a Blue Origin rocket with a message for humanity: “I hope they can see...
Storage units are the new hemline index

1 month ago | msn.com | Elaine Moore

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Storage units are the new hemline index

1 month ago | ft.com | Elaine Moore

There is a comforting theory that millennials and Gen Z are swerving the traditional purchases of adulthood because they prefer to access...
Who needs revenue when you’re a multibillion-dollar AI start-up?

2 months ago | ft.com | Elaine Moore

To have faith in the recent uptick of multibillion-dollar valuations for tech start-ups that have no profits, no sales and no product to...
Grok, o3 and ELMo - there’s a reason AI names are so weird

Feb 20, 2025 | straitstimes.com | Elaine Moore

At the tail-end of January, artificial intelligence start-up OpenAI released its latest model – a cute-sounding version called o3-mini. Designed to repel cheap Chinese rivals, it chalked up another victory for the sector’s mystifying inability to think up coherent names. See if you can spot the problem: The o3-mini came out six months after the 4o mini.
Grok, o3 and ELMo — there’s a reason AI names are so weird

Feb 17, 2025 | ft.com | Elaine Moore

At the tail-end of January, artificial intelligence start-up OpenAI released its latest model — a cute-sounding version called o3-mini.
Eagles, flags and a thumbs-up: what Trump’s White House website tells us

Jan 23, 2025 | ft.com | Elaine Moore

The video that autoplays on the new White House website starts with the pulse of helicopter blades.
UPDATE: Telehealth “Cliff” Pushed Back until April 1, 2025

Jan 5, 2025 | bradley.com | Evangeline O. Lalangas |Elaine Moore

Healthcare Alert Congress narrowly avoided hurdling off the telehealth “cliff” Bradley previously reported on in this post with the passing of the American Relief Act, 2025 on December 21, 2024. Unfortunately, this bill merely extends the telehealth extensions enacted via the COVID-19 emergency through March 31, 2025, giving telehealth providers and patients temporary relief.
One hundred million fans cannot make you famous

Jan 4, 2025 | afr.com | Elaine Moore

OpinionElaine MoorejournalistJan 5, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Hollywood has a star problem. The latest generation of leading men and women are all blessed with the sort of beauty, talent and charm that breed public adoration.