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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)
    • Thursday, 20 June, 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
    • Tuesday, 18 June, 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

    • Thursday, 13 June, 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.
    • Monday, 10 June, 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

    • Thursday, 6 June, 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
    • Thursday, 30 May, 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
    • Thursday, 23 May, 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
    • Thursday, 16 May, 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
    • Saturday, 11 May, 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

    • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
      Technology sector
      The great American innovation engine is firing again

      Federal government moves against Asian tech have brought investment rushing in

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    • Thursday, 2 May, 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

    • Thursday, 25 April, 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
    • Thursday, 18 April, 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
    • Thursday, 11 April, 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
    • Thursday, 4 April, 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
    • Sunday, 31 March, 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
    • Friday, 22 March, 2024
      The Big Read
      How Big Tech is winning the AI talent war

      Microsoft’s agreement with two founders of Inflection is the latest sign that deep-pocketed companies are scooping up much of the expertise in AI

      Nvidia CEO: Jensen Huang, Microsoft CEO: Satya Nadella, Google CEO: Sundar Pichai
    • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
      Technology
      Superfluous people vs AI: what the jobs revolution might look like

      The spectre of technological unemployment is causing fear — but we should treat the coming changes as an opportunity

      The word ‘Uber’ painted in a parking spot outside an airport
    • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
      Special ReportEurope’s Leading Start-up Hubs
      Top start-up hubs reinvent the model for European tech sector needs

      The UK heads the FT/Statista/Sifted ranking with the most hubs, followed by Germany and Spain

      an illustration of men and women surrounding a map. Each person is holding a glowing white object. Tha map is dotted with glowiing white spots
    • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
      Technology sector
      Elon Musk may yet hold OpenAI to account — unlike its board

      This legal battle is more than a row between billionaire tech bros, it’s about the future of AI transparency

      Elon Musk holds his finger tips together while listening to an interview question
    • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
      Financial services
      The Klarna drama reveals a governance gap

      The company needs to convince investors that it doesn’t need its star executives to thrive

      A neon sign that reads Klarna
    • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
      Artificial intelligence
      How fatalistic should we be on AI?

      The godfather of artificial intelligence has issued a stark warning about the technology

    • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
      US & Canadian companies
      How hardware is (still) eating the world

      Tech companies have a near-insatiable appetite for chips — and that is only set to grow as the demands of AI software swell

      The Twinscan Exe: 5000
    • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
      Artificial intelligence
      Babies vs AI — it’s no contest

      Using infants to develop artificial intelligence technology underscores just how phenomenal their brains are

      A smiling 18-month-old baby girl wearing a head-mounted camera
    • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
      Artificial intelligence
      Why AI hallucinations can be a good thing

      Generative artificial intelligence should be welcomed as a giant mash-up machine to enhance creativity

      Shoppers with trolley walk down an aisle in a supermarket
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