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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, 12 September, 2024
    Tech start-ups
    The surprising truth about failure in business

    Not everyone learns from things going wrong but progress depends upon it

    Sam Bankman-Fried
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    AI: too much information?

    Yuval Noah Harari and Parmy Olson on how the race for superintelligence may amplify the worst of human nature

    Two pictures of a white automaton with a humanoid face being held up
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    European companies
    Why Europe needs its own Nasdaq

    The EU has to tackle the drain of valuable tech companies to US capital markets

    Rene Haas, CEO of Arm Ltd, rings the opening bell during the company’s IPO at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York.
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    Tech Tonic podcast35 min listen
    The Telegram case: Pavel Durov

    The FT’s John Thornhill and Hannah Murphy on the man behind the controversial messaging app.

  • Thursday, 29 August, 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.
  • Thursday, 22 August, 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
  • Monday, 19 August, 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.
  • Thursday, 8 August, 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
  • Thursday, 1 August, 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
  • Thursday, 25 July, 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
  • Friday, 19 July, 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
  • Thursday, 18 July, 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
  • Thursday, 27 June, 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
  • 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

    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
  • 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
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