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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, 13 July, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Should the AI doctor see you now?

      Healthcare needs a productivity revolution but not at the expense of patient privacy and safety

      A patient awaits a Proximie surgery, with a doctor in Beirut guiding a Palestinian surgeon, at Al Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      Tech start-ups
      European tech investors need to up their ambitions

      It is currently safer and cheaper for fund managers wanting tech exposure to buy publicly traded companies on Nasdaq

      A middle-aged man in a dark suit sits on a chair with a report in his hand
    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      France on Trial by Julian Jackson — Marshal Pétain in the dock

      A masterful account of the 1945 treason case that forced a reckoning with four years of Nazi collaboration

    • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Why we should worry about the technological pessimists

      Futurists tend to overemphasise the speed of adoption and underemphasise the scope for adaptation

      A man window shopping at a hi-fi store in 1974
    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      Summer Books 2023
      Best summer books of 2023: Technology

      John Thornhill selects his best mid-year reads

    • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
      Technology sector
      Generative AI is disrupting its own investment case

      The very pace of transformative technology makes it tougher for start-ups — and for existing investment portfolios

      Mistral AI’s co-founders, Guillaume Lample, left, Arthur Mensch and Timothée Lacroix
    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      Cyber Security
      A global satellite blackout is a real threat — can hackers help?

      Lines between military, civilian and commercial communications have blurred, creating vulnerabilities

      Onlookers on a beach watch a recent SpaceX rocket launch
    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Everything Blueprint — how British chip company Arm became a global powerhouse

      James Ashton’s corporate drama of the extraordinary impact of the ‘Switzerland of semiconductors’ that’s more valued by foreign investors

      Microchips in a grid formatation
    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Beware ‘death by GPT syndrome’

      Generative AI has uses for the legal and health professions but is also a trap for the unwary

      Death Valley, California: we have a tendency to over-trust the computer, sometimes with fatal results
    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Technology sector
      Regulating artificial intelligence is a 4D challenge

      Experts warn of existential threats that require a global competition for good ideas

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    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Entrepreneurship
      Europe needs to ‘Frankenstein’ its start-up sector

      Germany is an example of a country with entrepreneurial potential, but it lacks domestic funding

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    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      The likely winners of the generative AI gold rush

      Small, specialist models that are cheap to train and fast to run may win out over the broader Big Tech offerings

      Gold miners in California in 1852. Today’s ‘picks and shovels’ companies that provide the tools for established companies to exploit AI will be certain to thrive
    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Technology
      How technology reinvented chess as a global social network

      The sport has become more accessible in the internet age

      Chess enthusiasts in 1997 watch the world champion Garry Kasparov’s match against IBM’s Deep Blue
    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      Visual story
      Quantum computing could break the internet. This is how

      We don’t know when. We don’t know who will get there first. But Q-day will happen — and it will change the world as we know it

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      Cyber Security
      The UK’s online safety bill will not keep us safe

      Proposed legislation will weaken the security of messaging apps or prompt their operators to leave Britain altogether

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    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Keeping ultra-intelligent machines docile is the challenge of our age

      Researchers are split over how to manage the threats posed by new forms of generative AI

      OpenAI logo with a phone with ChatGPT on its screen
    • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
      Technology
      Tech Tonic Season 6: The Quantum Revolution

      Our new podcast series asks what a future powered by quantum computing could look like

    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      Technology sector
      Multiple red flags are not yet slowing the generative AI train

      Critics claim the technology carries alarming risks and needs better governance

    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      Tech Tonic podcast25 min listen
      The quantum revolution: First port of call

      The Port of Los Angeles uses a quantum application. Does it work?

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      Tech start-ups
      How European entrepreneurs can live the American dream

      The social model designed to maximise happiness, not GDP, creates its own land of opportunity

      Sebastian Siemiatkowski
    • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
      Tech Tonic podcast25 min listen
      The quantum revolution: ‘Spooky action’

      The weird physics of quantum computers

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      GPT-4 is as astonishing as it is unnerving

      The new model is more accurate and powerful and has greater reasoning capabilities. But it is also open to abuse

      Montage image showing OpenAI logo, a hand holding a smartphone and GPT4
    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      Tech Tonic podcast21 min listen
      The quantum revolution: The race to build a quantum computer

      Is hype outpacing reality?

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      Instant InsightSilicon Valley Bank
      SVB shows that there are few libertarians in a financial foxhole

      Like banking titans in 2008, tech tycoons favour the privatisation of profits and the socialisation of losses

      The lobby of Silican Valley Bank headquarters in California
    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Technology
      ‘Fictional intelligence’ can blind us to real-world dangers

      Policymakers and strategists look to novelists to help envisage the tech accelerating towards us

      Flying cars, such as those seen in the 1997 film ‘The Fifth Element’
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