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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 X.com (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
    The State of AI
    Is China about to win the race?

    The world is focused on America’s lead but Beijing has the means, motive and opportunity to pull ahead

    John Thornhill and Caiwei Chen
  • Thursday, 30 October, 2025
    Technology sector
    It’s time to build the intention economy online

    Tim Berners-Lee believes AI offers a chance to reset to a system that serves individuals’ needs and privacy

    Portrait of Tim Berners-Lee in blue shirt and navy blazer
  • Monday, 27 October, 2025
    Q&AAsk an Expert
    Submit your questions: Will China win the AI race?

    Take part in a live Ask an Expert Q&A with the FT’s John Thornhill and Eleanor Olcott on November 13, at 1pm GMT

  • Thursday, 16 October, 2025
    Technology sector
    AI’s double bubble trouble

    There is a distinction between good investment and bad speculation — the likelihood is we are experiencing both

    Illustration of a robot hand holding a needle and about to pop a bubble
  • Thursday, 9 October, 2025
    Technology sector
    The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI

    Serious questions remain about what will happen if we do — and don’t — replicate human intelligence

    Carl Godfrey illustration of a brain as a dot of a question mark
  • Thursday, 2 October, 2025
    Aerospace & Defence
    Drone attacks threaten us all

    Emergency investment in the technology does not amount to a long-term defence strategy

    Thick black smoke billows into the sky behind a red tram and residential buildings in Kyiv following a Russian strike.
  • Thursday, 25 September, 2025
    Technology sector
    Miracle capitalism: where next?

    The US innovation model may be universally admired but its foundations are being undermined

    Dame Emma Walmsley smiles and gestures toward Jensen Huang as they stand in front of British and US flags
  • Saturday, 20 September, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    This is for Everyone — Tim Berners-Lee’s manifesto for a better online world

    The World Wide Web inventor criticises the ‘rage bait’ of algorithms and social media — and advocates tighter user control of personal data

    Kofi Annan and Tim Berners-Lee stand with a group of schoolchildren as Berners-Lee speaks into a microphone.
  • Thursday, 18 September, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    AI models must adapt or die

    The technology has already consumed almost all high-quality data — experience is now the dominant medium of improvement

    Construction work continues on Microsoft’s data centre in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin
  • Saturday, 13 September, 2025
    The Weekend Essay
    How chatbots are changing the internet

    As artificial and human intelligence becomes harder to tell apart, do we need new rules of engagement?

    An illustration of a couple on a sofa looking at a laptop and a boy siting at a desk reading a book. There are two robots in the background and a girl sitting on the floor playing with a teddy bear with a robot head.
  • Wednesday, 10 September, 2025
    European companies
    Mistral is stirring up a storm in European tech

    ASML deal connects two impressive tech companies but the capital available is a fraction of that in the US

    Arthur Mensch, founder of Mistral AI, stands in a suit at the AI Action Summit venue in Paris, looking toward the camera.
  • Thursday, 4 September, 2025
    Technology sector
    How ‘neural fingerprinting’ could analyse our minds

    New brain-scanning technology is both tantalising and disturbing

    A woman adjusts a Cerca Magnetics OPM-MEG helmet on a seated man's head. The helmet is covered in sensors and wires.
  • Thursday, 28 August, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    AI is opening up nature’s treasure chest

    Creating a machine-readable scientific database of species could deepen our understanding of the natural world

    Preserved cuttlefish and sea snake specimens in jars at the Natural History Museum’s coral reef exhibition.
  • Thursday, 21 August, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Brace for a crash before the golden age of AI

    History teaches that tech revolutions follow a predictable cycle of installation followed by creative destruction

    Construction work takes place on a portion of land between Walnut and Larrison Road and north of Early Road on an $11 billion Amazon Web Services data center
  • Saturday, 16 August, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Breakneck — why China’s engineers beat America’s lawyers

    Dan Wang’s compelling and provocative book explores both the merits and the madness of China’s engineering state

    A drone flies over a modern city dominated by tower blocks
  • Friday, 8 August, 2025
    Person in the News
    Dylan Field, Figma’s nice guy becomes tech’s new billionaire

    As co-founder and CEO of the design software company, he relished the hoopla of its blockbuster IPO

    Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma
  • Thursday, 7 August, 2025
    Venture capital investment
    The venture capital money machine is spinning again

    Figma’s blockbuster IPO highlights the outsized gains that can be made from early-stage investment

    Dylan Field, co-founder and chief executive officer of Figma Inc., centre left, and Praveer Melwani, chief financial officer of Figma Inc., centre right, during the company’s initial public offering
  • Wednesday, 30 July, 2025
    ReviewBusiness books
    Business books: What to read this month

    Following your gut, emotional intelligence, and American dominance of the generation of new ideas

    Montage of book covers: ‘Wellbeing Intelligence’, ‘You Already Know’ and ‘The New Geography of Innovation’
  • Thursday, 17 July, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Disinformation warriors are ‘grooming’ chatbots

    Russian hackers are exploring ways to inject propaganda into the training data of generative AI models

    A screen shot of a ChatEurope web page
  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Technology
    ‘Vibe managers’ have yet to find their groove

    An experiment that used an AI agent to act as a shopkeeper produced some bizarre results

    The Project Vend mini fridge
  • 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

    Collage of book covers
  • 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
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