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    Elaine Moore

    Deputy Head of Lex

    Elaine Moore is deputy editor of the FT’s Lex column and writes 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.

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    • Friday, 8 December, 2023
      Meta Platforms
      Metaverse aside, Zuckerberg has had a surprisingly good year

      Interest in virtual reality remains tepid — but his AI experiment proved more successful

    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      LexOpenAI
      OpenAI’s secrecy imperils public trust Premium content

      Start-up is a private company but Sam Altman’s unexplained exit and sudden reinstatement have wider repercussions

      OpenAI chief Sam Altman in Washington earlier this year
    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
      Urban planning
      San Francisco’s clean up should spur new city solutions

      Its rapid beautification ahead of a global summit proved sadly shortlived

      A sanitation worker cleans a street in front of San Francisco City Hall
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
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      Big Tech roundup: Tesla, Nvidia, Apple and more

      Our stock-picking contest is midway through. How are the contestants doing?

    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      The Top LineEcommerce
      Groceries shoppers are proving resistant to tech disruption

      Instacart and Amazon show shopping habits are hard to break, especially in the US

    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: some concerns about AI look artificial Premium content

      Plus, OpenAI, pensions, UK banks, Israeli gas, BP, Ørsted, Cedar Fair

      Detail of ‘The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ (published 1630) by Christoph Murer
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      We might be surprised by our reactions to generative AI

      Tech companies are convinced the way we communicate is about to be transformed

      The dancer Charli D’Amelio
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      LexAirbnb Inc
      The Lex Newsletter: New York officials take on San Francisco’s Airbnb Premium content

      One potential easy way for the accommodation site to raise revenues and margins would be to add advertising

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    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: how many jobs is too many? Premium content

      Plus, Barclays, Gaza, Exxon, Elon Musk, Google, China property, Walgreens

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    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: IPOs pop and drop Premium content

      Plus, Cisco, S4 Capital, SoftBank, private equity, UBS, UK net zero, Pearson

    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      Social affairs
      The murky world of online age certification raises privacy questions

      A rush of new laws designed to stop children from accessing adult content is changing the way people use the internet

      Illustration of three red Xs wrapped in chains
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      The Top LineTechnology sector
      Please, stop the pop-ups

      They were created to split content and ads to assuage worried advertisers, but users hate them

      An image of a pop-up ad on a computer screen
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      LexArtificial intelligence
      The Lex Newsletter: generating use cases for generative AI Premium content

      Understanding exactly what the world wants from the technology seems to be a problem

      Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI
    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      OutlookDigital Media
      Influencers beware: Converting YouTube fame to an IPO is not easy

      MrBeast may have more online followers than Elon Musk but his experience shows brand-to-business ventures are not easy

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    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      The Top LineUS & Canadian companies
      In praise of the boring chief executive

      Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella run huge companies but they have learned to stay out of the limelight

    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      AI entering the dating pool is a bleak prospect

      As matchmaking apps struggle, the temptation to lean on this technology could prove risky

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    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
      Stricter rules for US banks

      European Central Bank raises interest rates back to record high

    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      LexBig tech
      The Lex Newsletter: tech’s magnificent seven ride to the rescue  Premium content

      Top technology groups are leading the US market rally but AI development offers both potential and pitfalls

      A scene from 1960 film ‘The Magnificent Seven’
    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      Social Media
      Why social media is hardly social any more

      Apps such as Zuckerberg’s Threads are a stage for brands and celebrities, not a network for friends to connect

      close up of hands holding a smartphone with the Threads app open on it
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
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      The 2023 Unhedged stock draft

      How will the big seven tech stocks do in the second half of 2023?

    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Driverless vehicles
      I wanted to love driverless taxis, but then my ride took a sinister turn

      San Francisco is being used as a living laboratory for robotaxis, with mixed results

    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      LexArtificial intelligence
      The Lex Newsletter: every start-up is now an AI start-up Premium content

      Hopes for the future size of the market have encouraged VCs to write big cheques but challenges lie ahead

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    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: like and subscribe!  Premium content

      Plus, Amazon, Ocado, UK banks, US homebuilders, AstraZeneca, flying taxis

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    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      LexCompanies
      The Lex Newsletter: Reddit and the API apocalypse  Premium content

      Plus, Amgen/Horizon, Microsoft/Activision, Nasdaq, renewable energy, Glencore, Crispin Odey

      A Reddit logo changed to have a sad face
    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      LexVirtual and Augmented Reality
      The Lex Newsletter: Apple, VR and the $37bn elephant in the room Premium content

      Losses at Meta’s Reality Labs demonstrate how excitement about new products often fails to translate into sales

      Apple’s new Vision Pro virtual reality headset and Nintendo’s 1995 Virtual Boy video game console
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