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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, 3 July, 2025
    Technology
    I’m human. Are you? The battle for our online identity

    The increasing ubiquity of AI makes it harder to authenticate who someone is in the digital realm

    The Orb
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    We are the new gremlins in the AI machine

    How users treat a product in the real world can diverge wildly from what the designers intended

    Minecraft
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    Science
    Britain’s moonshot factory has a moment of opportunity

    An agency fed by government money aims to create an innovation wave in science rather than surf it

    Ilan Gur
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Summer books 2025: the best titles of the year so far
    Best summer books of 2025: Environment, Science and Technology

    Pilita Clark, Clive Cookson and John Thornhill select their best mid-year reads

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  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
    Quant investing
    Are machines smarter than venture capitalists?

    Most VC firms are not yet ditching human experience, but a few pioneers are about to go all in on quant trading

    An illustration of quantum light
  • Thursday, 5 June, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    We need a new deal for the web

    The speed and direction of AI’s transformation of the digital economy raises fears of its viability and predatory bots

    Google logo is seen through a magnifying loupe
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Venture capital investment
    The VC industry needs a geopolitical reboot

    AI is rewriting the rules of the technological and investment game

    A model of a unicorn
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Generative AI models are skilled in the art of bullshit

    Large language models are unconcerned with truth because they have no concept of it — and therein lies the danger

    Harry Frankfurt
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    US AI laws risk becoming more ‘European’ than Europe’s

    An intense battle may now erupt over who has the right to regulate — or deregulate — technology

    Ted Cruz speaks at a news conference to unveil the Take It Down Act
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Tech Tonic podcast30 min listen
    Future weapons: Tomorrow’s technology

    FT correspondents discuss the battlefield of the future

  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    OpenAI
    OpenAI still has a governance problem

    Remaining under the control of a non-profit board does not negate the risks of increasingly autonomous AI models  

    Sam Altman and Elon Musk
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Tech Tonic podcast27 min listen
    Future weapons: Rearming Europe

    Is developing defence technology essential for European security?

  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    Tech Tonic podcast24 min listen
    Future weapons: Battlefield AI

    How new Israeli defence tech in Gaza is changing the way wars are being fought

  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    Democracy
    What papal conclaves can teach democracies about voting

    When an electoral system evolves over time, it can be surprisingly effective

    Stanley Tucci in Concalve
  • Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
    Tech Tonic podcast25 min listen
    Future weapons: The defence tech bros

    In the US, a new breed of start-ups is disrupting the defence industry

  • Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
    Tech Tonic podcast28 min listen
    Future weapons: Ukraine’s army of drones

    After Ukraine, are drones the future of warfare?

  • 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
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