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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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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Tech start-ups
    Three ideas to energise British tech

    A vibe shift is needed to close the gap between the UK and Silicon Valley

    A car using Wayve technology
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Military technology
    Ukraine is winning the drone start-up war

    Experimentation on the battlefield and fast development of cheap, smart solutions help the country resist Russia

    Ukrainian servicemen of the 25th Airborne Brigade attach small air bombs to a Vampire drone
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    AI and jobs
    Wealthy cities may be surprise losers from AI automation

    The geographic pattern of digital dislocation’s impact may be very different from that of previous waves of automation

    Pedestrians on Market Street in San Francisco, California
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    ‘We have to be prepared’: Torsten Reil of defence tech company Helsing

    The German entrepreneur on safeguarding Europe, AI warfare — and why democracies need deterrents

    A short haired, bearded, early middle-aged white man with blue eyes in front of a red restaurant backdrop
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Social Media
    The promise of the fifth estate is being squeezed

    After social media rattled the old gatekeepers of information, new digital ones have emerged

    Illustration of a hand crushing a speech bubble
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    Technology sector
    It’s time for Europe’s deep tech companies to go big

    Reasserting technological sovereignty is becoming increasingly urgent

    A rendering of Proxima Fusion’s nuclear power plant
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Start-up Hubs 2025
    Europe's start-ups are using AI to reimagine business models

    The region can compete with US tech at the application level of artificial intelligence

    A stylized digital illustration of two silhouetted figures observing a glowing globe with Europe highlighted in red. Several illuminated icons representing technology, AI, and business are connected to different regions
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    FT Film27 min
    Nvidia's rise in the age of AI | FT Film

    Race for AI supremacy propels Nvidia despite sell-off following DeepSeek release

    The Nvidia economy
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    Politics
    Soviet-style ‘inner emigration’ is no escape from today’s reality

    Tuning out the external world may be tempting but it’s the wrong strategy

    Georgy Malenkov and Nikolai Bulganin in front of the remains of Joseph Stalin in March, 1953 in Moscow
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
    Intellectual property
    Help is coming in the AI copyright wars

    Artificial intelligence companies must decide how to pay for the human-generated content they need

    Annie Lennox performs onstage
  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Estonia launches AI in high schools with US tech groups

    Nationwide drive with OpenAI and Anthropic to help students prepare for jobs of the future

    Three men talk in front of a classroom of students using laptops in Estonia
  • Saturday, 22 February, 2025
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Big Tech and the genesis of AI’s new world order

    Should Silicon Valley serve the military? What will tech wars mean? And will AI’s inhuman speed outpace regulators? Three books peer into a fast-evolving future

    A bank of five stacks of computer hardware attached to thick cables and glowing in the dark
  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    Quantum technologies
    Patience pays off in quantum computing

    Microsoft’s qubit breakthrough is a welcome shot of adrenaline for the industry

    Microsoft’s Majorana 1 quantum computing chip
  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Make AI safe again

    It is a fallacy to believe there is a trade-off between regulation and innovation

    French President Emmanuel Macron bumps fists with a robot as part of an event on the sidelines of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit
  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    Healthcare
    Overstretched healthcare should welcome the rise of the AI body scan

    Trustworthy private providers could help overburdened services with their capacity issues

    A Neko scanner
  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    With DeepSeek, China innovates and the US imitates

    The start-up’s breakthrough confounds outworn prejudices about the two countries

    Two men sit in a conference hall in China
  • Friday, 24 January, 2025
    Big Tech
    Trump is becoming the technoking of America

    The president is surrounded by the leaders of the richest and most powerful companies in history — but their dominance may yet be checked

    President Donald Trump speaks on a podium while Masayoshi Son, Larry Ellison and Sam Altman listen on the side
  • Thursday, 16 January, 2025
    US politics & policy
    A lesson for oligarchs: politics can be deadly

    The emergence of a powerful tech elite close to Donald Trump has jarring echoes with Russia

    Linda McMahon and Elon Musk attend the America First Policy Institute Gala held at Mar-a-Lago
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    ‘Superintelligence’ will take time to generate super returns

    Artificial general intelligence may be transformational but it carries risks and demands investors’ patience

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
  • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
    HTSISeven wellness journeys to help you find your feelgood
    Neko’s full-body scan costs £300 and has a 100K waiting list. Is it worth it?

    The FT’s Innovation Editor tries the affordable MOT

    Neko’s £299 scan includes a skin scan, blood tests, body and circulation examinations and a doctor’s consultation
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    European companies
    Can France become a global AI powerhouse?

    Momentum has been slowing but the country boasts enviable technical skills and a burgeoning entrepreneurial culture

    The ‘Play-Doh’ sculpture at the Station F start-up incubator in Paris
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    AI is the frenemy of freedom

    An optimistic view of the technology sees the possibility of it offering humans ‘superagency’ rather than as a threat

    The philosopher Isaiah Berlin
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    The future of AI agents: highly lucrative but surprisingly boring

    Big companies are trumpeting the value of consumer-facing personal digital helpers to make our lives easier

    A scene from Disney’s ‘Fantasia’ based on the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poem ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    HTSI
    The world’s best food markets

    FT writers and editors choose their favourite places to stock up on great local produce

    Central Market in Valencia
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    Technology sector
    Silicon Valley billionaires remain in thrall to the cult of the geek

    IQ hierarchies are a dangerous myth

    Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates circa 1983
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