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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)
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast20 min listen
    In the age of AI, what counts as art?

    Our innovation editor John Thornhill on seeing the new film ‘Eno’, which presents the musician’s life in a new sequence each time the movie is shown

  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Technology
    The conflicted investment case for defence tech

    There’s a bull market for the fast-changing sector but investing and innovating in weapons carries risks

    A Ukrainian drone operator watches as artillery strikes Russian positions.
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Inside the ‘killer cell’ factory

    The next stage in the war on cancer may be enlisting patients’ own blood cells to fight the disease

    Two men dressed in business suits standing side by side under a tree
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Can machines be more ‘truthful’ than humans?

    A new film based on the life of Brian Eno raises some profound questions about the disruptive effects of AI

    Montage of images of Brian Eno with different expressions
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    TikTok Inc
    Time is running out for TikTok in the US

    The social media platform is threatened with a ban but remains wildly popular among users, including Kamala Harris and Donald Trump

    Participants hold signs in support of TikTok outside the Capitol Building in Washington
  • 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
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