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John Thornhill

Innovation Editor

John Thornhill is the Innovation Editor at the Financial Times writing a weekly column on the impact of technology. He is also the founder and editorial director of Sifted, the FT-backed site for European startups, and founder of FT Forums, which hosts monthly meetings for senior executives.

John was previously deputy editor and news editor of the FT in London. He has also been Europe editor, Paris bureau chief, Asia editor, Moscow correspondent and Lex columnist.

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  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Tech entrepreneur Niklas Zennström: ‘Let’s break the Silicon Valley monopoly’

    The Skype co-founder turned venture capitalist on how Europe’s start-ups can challenge America’s giants

  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    The promise — and peril — of generative AI

    This technology is readily accessible and usable at extraordinary speed and scale

  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
    US-China trade dispute
    Tech remains central in ‘hot peace’ between China and US

    Despite the shouty rhetoric, economic symbiosis remains strong, benefiting consumers on both sides

    Joe Biden meets Xi Jinping at a G20 Summit in Bali
  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    Technology
    Can AI help us speak to animals?

    Microphones and machine learning are being deployed to understand the non-human world

  • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
    ObituaryKaren Bakker
    Karen Bakker, scientist and author, 1971-2023

    Her boundary-pushing work on how animals communicate was just one part of her considerable legacy

    Karen Bakker
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Technology
    Clean data must be as much of a right as clean water

    Buried deep in the privacy policies of car companies is their practice of collection, using and selling your very personal information

    A Nissan Leaf recharges in Denver, Colorado
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    AI and the next great tech shift

    From technology containment to political power and digital regulation, three books about the artificial intelligence revolution

  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    Education
    ‘Edtech’ offers no escape from reality

    Experiments in virtual teaching could turn a digital divide into an educational one

    A boy wears a virtual reality headset in a classroom
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    Virtual and Augmented Reality
    What happens when AI passes through the ‘uncanny valley’?

    Robots are close to being so convincing that we can’t tell them apart from humans — and that could be a problem

    A realistic AI-generated photo of a human eye
  • Friday, 25 August, 2023
    Technology sector
    High hopes over Arm’s relisting may clash with reality

    The languishing IPO market awaits the outcome of the British chip designer’s flotation

  • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    The sceptical case on generative AI

    Hype is huge around the technology, but some uncomfortable truths are also being raised

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a white unicorn with a drooping horn, which is comprised of fifty pound banknotes.
  • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
    Technology
    How ‘creative insecurity’ is stimulating Ukrainian innovation

    Russia’s target has had to rapidly develop its own defence capabilities, often by adapting civilian technologies for military use

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a blue plastic soldier throwing a military drone on a yellow background.
  • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
    UK business
    You don’t become a science superpower without taking care of the basics

    Britain’s ambition to lead technological transformation is hobbled by inertia in both the public and private sectors

    View of the Millenium Bridge in London silhouetted against a stormy sky with sunlight falling on the City of London in the background
  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Osip Mandelstam — a Russian poet who could not be silent

    Ralph Dutli’s rounded biography of the Soviet-era writer murdered by Stalin deftly examines his literary legacy

  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    Should the AI doctor see you now?

    Healthcare needs a productivity revolution but not at the expense of patient privacy and safety

    A patient awaits a Proximie surgery, with a doctor in Beirut guiding a Palestinian surgeon, at Al Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip
  • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
    Tech start-ups
    European tech investors need to up their ambitions

    It is currently safer and cheaper for fund managers wanting tech exposure to buy publicly traded companies on Nasdaq

    A middle-aged man in a dark suit sits on a chair with a report in his hand
  • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    France on Trial by Julian Jackson — Marshal Pétain in the dock

    A masterful account of the 1945 treason case that forced a reckoning with four years of Nazi collaboration

  • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    Why we should worry about the technological pessimists

    Futurists tend to overemphasise the speed of adoption and underemphasise the scope for adaptation

    A man window shopping at a hi-fi store in 1974
  • Monday, 19 June, 2023
    Summer Books 2023
    Best summer books of 2023: Technology

    John Thornhill selects his best mid-year reads

  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    Technology sector
    Generative AI is disrupting its own investment case

    The very pace of transformative technology makes it tougher for start-ups — and for existing investment portfolios

    Mistral AI’s co-founders, Guillaume Lample, left, Arthur Mensch and Timothée Lacroix
  • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
    Cyber Security
    A global satellite blackout is a real threat — can hackers help?

    Lines between military, civilian and commercial communications have blurred, creating vulnerabilities

    Onlookers on a beach watch a recent SpaceX rocket launch
  • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Everything Blueprint — how British chip company Arm became a global powerhouse

    James Ashton’s corporate drama of the extraordinary impact of the ‘Switzerland of semiconductors’ that’s more valued by foreign investors

    Microchips in a grid formatation
  • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    Beware ‘death by GPT syndrome’

    Generative AI has uses for the legal and health professions but is also a trap for the unwary

    Death Valley, California: we have a tendency to over-trust the computer, sometimes with fatal results
  • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
    Technology sector
    Regulating artificial intelligence is a 4D challenge

    Experts warn of existential threats that require a global competition for good ideas

    Writers Guild of America members and supporters carry banners on a picket line in New York
  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Entrepreneurship
    Europe needs to ‘Frankenstein’ its start-up sector

    Germany is an example of a country with entrepreneurial potential, but it lacks domestic funding

    A green Flix train in Berlin
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