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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.
Email John Thornhill @johnthornhillft  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window) (opens a new window)
  • August 29 2024
    Telegram
    Pavel Durov and the limits of free speech
    Telegram has failed to distinguish between the demands of autocratic regimes and legitimate democratic requests
    Pavel Durov, CEO and co-founder of Telegram, speaks onstage during day one of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 at Pier 70 in San Francisco, California. He is sitting in a chair, wearing a dark jacket, and has a microphone headset.
  • August 22 2024
    Science
    What an epic 18th-century scientific row teaches us today
    The rivalry between Buffon and Linnaeus has lessons about disrupters and exploitation
    Left: Carl Linnaeus, portrayed in an 1806 engraving. Right: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon, shown in a 1777 engraving
  • August 19 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    The appetite for US defence tech is growing
    But burgeoning military-civil fusion creates risks as well as rewards
    Matt Kenyon illustration of coding coming out of a person’s face.
  • August 8 2024
    Technology sector
    In branding Google a monopoly, Judge Mehta opens the door for change
    The ruling in the antitrust case against the tech group will reverberate throughout the global digital economy
    Signage outside Google’s new Bay View campus in Mountain View, California
  • August 1 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    AI can learn a lot from its biological predecessors
    Synthetic data risks ‘model collapse’ but may spur renewed interest in robotics
    Ouroboros
  • July 25 2024
    Technology sector
    Start-ups like Wiz will have to learn the art of living longer
    The decision of the Israeli-founded cyber security company and Google to call off their match has lessons for the tech sector
    The Wiz logo on the screen of a smartphone
  • July 19 2024
    Technology sector
    Digital paralysis shows the dangers of e-globalisation
    Rather than anything more malicious, the trigger for the cyber failure seems to have been a prosaic software update
    Travelers walk past a monitor displaying a blue error screen inside an airport terminal
  • July 18 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Can the returns from Big Tech’s staggering capex live up to the hype?
    Investors will expect stratospheric rewards from the extraordinary surge in investment
    Jensen Huang displays products on-stage during the annual Nvidia GTC Artificial Intelligence Conference
  • June 27 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    To cure disease, AI needs more of our data
    Information about patients remains ‘liquid gold’ when it comes to enriching medical research
    A photo of a pencil being pointed at an AI biomedical algorithm screen
  • June 20 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    The danger of deepfakes is not what you think
    Instead of wreaking political damage, AI-generated content can be useful for election campaigns
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s face is analysed on a screen to create an avatar
  • June 18 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Technology
    John Thornhill selects his best mid-year reads
  • June 13 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    How AI may become the new offshoring
    Companies must find a way to make the most of the new technology
    Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, delivers a speech in Taipei.
  • June 10 2024
    FT CollectionsTech Exchange
    Index Ventures’ Danny Rimer: ‘The talent is what’s going to drive the difference’
    Markets and technology matter, says the VC veteran, but people are the decisive factor in choosing investments
  • June 6 2024
    Technology sector
    AI is a green curse as well as a blessing
    The amount of energy used by data centres is staggering
    A server centre in Berlin
  • May 30 2024
    Renewable energy
    How to ship sunlight and deliver green energy
    Repurposing railways for solar energy transportation is one way to address the energy challenge
    A container on a flatbed rail truck with the SunTrain logo on the side
  • May 23 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Scarlett Johansson is right: AI companies must be more transparent
    A new index shows that they have a long way to go, including on data access and model trustworthiness
    Close up Scarlet Johansson in red and black stripey vest top and hair done up
  • May 16 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Britain’s got AI talent but that’s not enough
    The ambitions may be homegrown yet the funds still come from abroad
    A London bus drives behind a car with what appears to be a camera or sensor on its roof
  • May 11 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Can the AI future work for everyone?
    Three important books highlight the technology’s great promise — but warn of the dangers of its misuse without regulation
  • May 9 2024
    Technology sector
    The great American innovation engine is firing again
    Federal government moves against Asian tech have brought investment rushing in
    View of Apollo Lunar Module 3, built for Nasa’s Apollo space programme, undergoing a docking test at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 1968
  • May 2 2024
    Technology sector
    What TikTok and Tesla tell us about pragmatism in the US and China
    Both Washington and Beijing juggle security fears with commercial interests and political influence in their policy positions
  • April 25 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    It’s not only AI that hallucinates
    Human memory is also fallible but people and machines can learn to complement each other
    Illustration of a humanoid robot head with numbers and figures overlaid
  • April 18 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    The AI race is generating a dual reality
    US tech giants may dominate but they won’t have it all their own way
    ChatGPT and OpenAI logos
  • April 11 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    War by algorithm raises new moral dangers
    Israel’s use of an AI-enabled targeting system in Gaza has fed the debate about military technology
    Damaged buildings in Khan Younis this week, after Israel pulled its ground forces out of the southern Gaza Strip
  • April 4 2024
    Genomics
    Can 23andMe reinvent itself as a drug discovery company?
    It aims to exploit its extraordinary cache of genetic data but changing corporate DNA is hard
    The contents of a 23andMe Ancestry + Traits Service DNA kit laid out
  • March 31 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Huge AI funding leads to hype and ‘grifting’, warns DeepMind’s Hassabis
    British AI pioneer says the billions of dollars being poured into start-ups is obscuring scientific progress in the field
    Demis Hassabis at the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park last year
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