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Elaine Moore

Elaine Moore

Financial Times

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Does ChatGPT think you’re Welsh too?

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

18.02.2026 7

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Elaine Moore

GTFO: Trump, Minnesota and the new rules of swearing

Blame the vulgarity vibe shift for more profanities in public life

17.01.2026 20

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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

24.12.2025 20

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Etsy witches face a tough business spell

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

05.12.2025 10

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Where does Wikipedia go in the age of AI?

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

24.10.2025 5

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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

18.09.2025 5

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The perils of vibe coding

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

28.08.2025 7

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The book that explains the billionaire doomers

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

24.07.2025 20

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Here come the glassholes, part II

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

13.06.2025 10

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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

04.06.2025 6

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How one teenager uses AI

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

15.05.2025 10

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Storage units are the new hemline index

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

13.04.2025 7

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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

17.02.2025 9

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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

23.01.2025 10

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One hundred million fans cannot make you famous

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

01.01.2025 9

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Year in a word: Slop

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

26.12.2024 6

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Elaine Moore