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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)
  • Thursday, 30 April, 2026
    Artificial intelligence
    In praise of tech troublemakers

    As CEOs refuse constraints, workers feel a responsibility to prevent AI’s most dangerous uses

    John Thornhill
    A group of Google employees sit on the floor wearing shirts with messages protesting the company's work with Israel, including “Drop Project Nimbus” and “Googler Against Genocide.”
  • Wednesday, 22 April, 2026
    Technology
    Apple controls the tech sector’s Strait of Hormuz

    It may have stumbled in the AI race but the company’s new CEO will find it still has distinct advantages

    John Thornhill
    Tim Cook and John Ternus walking outdoors at Apple Park, both smiling and engaged in conversation.
  • Friday, 17 April, 2026
    Life & Arts
    Lunch with the FT. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei: ‘I don’t want AI turned on our own people’

    The tech entrepreneur on Claude Mythos, repercussions from the Pentagon dispute — and his message for the super-rich

    Illustrated portrait of a man with curly hair and blue-framed glasses.
  • Thursday, 16 April, 2026
    Artificial intelligence
    AI has an Awful Image problem

    Modern-day Luddites are gaining ground because tech titans haven’t shown people how innovation will improve their lives

    John Thornhill
  • Thursday, 9 April, 2026
    Technology sector
    The chips chokehold that could end the AI investment boom

    Taiwan’s control of leading-edge silicon chips lies on a geostrategic faultline

    John Thornhill
    Cityscape of Kaohsiung at night with brightly lit skyscrapers and buildings under a blue sky.
  • Wednesday, 1 April, 2026
    Tech start-ups
    US investors prefer Europemaxxing to Europebashing

    Venture capital firms know their dollars go a lot further here than in Silicon Valley

    John Thornhill
    Arthur Mensch and Jensen Huang speaking on stage at Vivatechnology, both holding microphones and smiling
  • Thursday, 26 March, 2026
    Big Tech
    The relentless march of the omniscalers

    Tech giants such as Alphabet, Amazon, Alibaba and Huawei are commanding enormous global resources

    John Thornhill
    Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk stand together at the inauguration ceremony
  • Thursday, 26 March, 2026
    Digital economy
    Ask an Expert. Can Europe break free from US tech dominance? You asked, we answered

    FT Innovation Editor John Thornhill and EU correspondent Barbara Moens replied to reader questions in an Ask an Expert Q&A

  • Wednesday, 25 March, 2026
    Non-Fiction
    The Infinity Machine — a deep dive into the mind of Demis Hassabis

    Sebastian Mallaby’s compelling biography of the DeepMind co-founder traces his life’s mission to create artificial general intelligence

  • Thursday, 19 March, 2026
    Technology sector
    Being stranded abroad sold me on AI travel agents

    Some users may be reluctant to increase their dependence on Big Tech companies

    John Thornhill
    Passengers seated inside an airplane cabin, some looking at their phones, with light streaming through the windows.
  • Thursday, 12 February, 2026
    Technology sector
    The exorbitant privilege of the US brain gain is fading

    In India, domestic tech entrepreneurs are outperforming those who return home after a stint in Silicon Valley

    John Thornhill
    Robin Li speaks on stage with a headset microphone, gesturing with his hands, against a purple background.
  • Thursday, 5 February, 2026
    Technology sector
    AI agents are prompting human boom scrolling

    Moltbook and Claude Cowork are pushing the ‘vibe coding’ revolution forward

    John Thornhill
    Moltbook logo featuring a red cartoon creature is shown on a phone, with the Moltbook website’s homepage on a laptop in the background.
  • Thursday, 29 January, 2026
    Social Media
    Want to solve deepfakes? Ask citizens what to do

    Assemblies can bridge the gap between people being treated as voters and consumers

    John Thornhill
    Audrey Tang speaks onstage, holding a microphone and gesturing with one hand during the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting
  • Thursday, 22 January, 2026
    European economy
    Thanks Donald, Europe will take it from here

    The continent must strive to disentangle itself from the US

    John Thornhill
    Ursula von der Leyen speaks at a podium during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos
  • Thursday, 15 January, 2026
    Venture capital investment
    Venture capital’s ‘spray and pray’ playbook lowers AI barriers of entry

    The latest investment frenzy is heavily concentrated in one sector

    John Thornhill
    An illustration showing a blue glowing artificial synapse with yellow pulses representing synaptic transmission between two neural networks
  • Thursday, 8 January, 2026
    Driverless vehicles
    For now, autonomous vehicles still need humans

    AI must learn to reckon with a world much messier than any computer simulation

    John Thornhill
    A Waymo Chrysler Pacifica autonomous minivan is parked with its sliding door open, showing the empty passenger seat.
  • Saturday, 20 December, 2025
    Political espionage
    SpyGPT will shake James Bond’s world

    Open-source data and machine learning tools mean the challenge is not information scarcity but information overload

    John Thornhill
    Iain Glen as Richard Sorge in the film Spy Sorge
  • Thursday, 11 December, 2025
    Quantum technologies
    The mind-bending complexities of quantum investing

    There’s a lot of enthusiasm over what is increasingly seen as the next big frontier in computing

    John Thornhill
    Professor Richard Feynman gestures while giving a lecture in front of a blackboard filled with complex mathematical equations.
  • Wednesday, 10 December, 2025
    Venture capital investment
    Nick Clegg takes on venture capital role alongside Meta AI scientist Yann LeCun

    Former lobbyist and UK deputy prime minister joins London-based Hiro Capital

    Nick Clegg gestures while speaking on stage against a red curtain backdrop.
  • Saturday, 6 December, 2025
    Driverless vehicles
    Can Wayve make London a self-driving city?

    John Thornhill takes an autonomous spin through the city’s tangled streets with the British start-up’s chief Alex Kendall

  • Thursday, 4 December, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    The US may be running the wrong AI race

    China’s favouring of small and cheap models such as DeepSeek could prove to be the better bet

    Logos for Deepseek, ChatGPT, and Qwen are displayed in a repeating pattern on a mobile phone screen.
  • Wednesday, 3 December, 2025
    AI in Practice
    Generative AI’s rapid journey through the ‘hype cycle’

    Realising the tech’s potential to boost productivity requires a shift in corporate culture and working practices

    John Thornhill
    A hand holding an iPhone showing the ChatGPT app with GPT-5 enabled; computer screens and office equipment are visible in the background.
  • Thursday, 27 November, 2025
    Social Media
    Taming the four horsemen of the infocalypse

    Imposter accounts, lax moderation, extremism and synthetic content could destroy trust in everything we read online

    John Thornhill
    An illustration showing a robotic hand controlling a puppet-like robot with strings, surrounded by social media icons such as Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Spotify, and X (formerly Twitter).
  • Thursday, 20 November, 2025
    EU tech regulation
    Europe’s tech sector is evolving fast. Is it fast enough?

    Despite record expansion and growing ambition in the continent, the US is surging ahead again

    John Thornhill
    An illustration showing a digital globe overlaid with binary code, with numbers appearing to fly off the surface.
  • Tuesday, 18 November, 2025
    The best books of the year 2025
    The best environment, science and technology books to read this year

    Pilita Clark, Clive Cookson and John Thornhill select their must-read titles

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