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John Thornhill

John Thornhill

Financial Times

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Start-ups like Wiz will have to learn the art of living longer

The decision of the Israeli-founded cyber security company and Google to call off their match has lessons for the tech sector

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Digital paralysis shows the dangers of e-globalisation

Rather than anything more malicious, the trigger for the cyber failure seems to have been a prosaic software update

19.07.2024 4

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Can the returns from Big Tech’s staggering capex live up to the hype?

Investors will expect stratospheric rewards from the extraordinary surge in investment

18.07.2024 20

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To cure disease, AI needs more of our data

Information about patients remains ‘liquid gold’ when it comes to enriching medical research

27.06.2024 10

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The danger of deepfakes is not what you think

Instead of wreaking political damage, AI-generated content can be useful for election campaigns

20.06.2024 6

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How AI may become the new offshoring

Companies must find a way to make the most of the new technology

13.06.2024 20

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AI is a green curse as well as a blessing

The amount of energy used by data centres is staggering

06.06.2024 9

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How to ship sunlight

Repurposing railways for solar energy transportation is one way to address the energy challenge

30.05.2024 20

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Scarlett Johansson is right: AI companies must be more transparent

A new index shows that they have a long way to go, including on data access and model trustworthiness

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Britain’s got AI talent but that’s not enough

The ambitions may be homegrown yet the funds still come from abroad

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The great American innovation engine is firing again

Federal government moves against Asian tech have brought investment rushing in

09.05.2024 20

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What TikTok and Tesla tell us about pragmatism in the US and China

Both Washington and Beijing juggle security fears with commercial interests and political influence in their policy positions

02.05.2024 20

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It’s not only AI that hallucinates

Human memory is also fallible but people and machines can learn to complement each other

25.04.2024 20

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The AI race is generating a dual reality

US tech giants may dominate but they won’t have it all their own way

18.04.2024 20

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Algorithmic warfare raises new moral dangers

Israel’s use of an AI-enabled targeting system in Gaza has fed the debate about military technology

11.04.2024 5

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Changing 23andMe’s corporate DNA will be difficult

The company aims to exploit its extraordinary cache of genetic data for drug discovery

04.04.2024 10

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Superfluous people vs AI: what the jobs revolution might look like

The spectre of technological unemployment is causing fear — but we should treat the coming changes as an opportunity

14.03.2024 8

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Elon Musk may yet hold OpenAI to account — unlike its board

This legal battle is more than a row between billionaire tech bros, it’s about the future of AI transparency

07.03.2024 10

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The Klarna drama reveals a governance gap

The company needs to convince investors that it doesn’t need its star executives to thrive

29.02.2024 10

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How fatalistic should we be on AI?

The godfather of artificial intelligence has issued a stark warning about the technology

22.02.2024 10

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How hardware is (still) eating the world

Tech companies have a near-insatiable appetite for chips — and that is only set to grow as the demands of AI software swell

15.02.2024 10

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Babies vs AI — it’s no contest

Using infants to develop artificial intelligence technology underscores just how phenomenal their brains are

08.02.2024 10

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Why AI hallucinations can be a good thing

Generative artificial intelligence should be welcomed as a giant mash-up machine to enhance creativity

01.02.2024 10

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The AI revolution is generating some investor ‘hallucinations’ too

Big tech firms are muscling in on funding the future, pushing Silicon Valley VCs out of the way

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Germany should go big on nuclear fusion energy

The country must act fast to avoid being overtaken by international competitors

18.01.2024 6

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The bitter technological lesson of the Post Office scandal

Governments must listen to the humans on the frontline rather than those in the back office

11.01.2024 20

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Can technology’s ‘zoomers’ outrun the ‘doomers’?

There may be a case for optimism in AI’s transformation of scientific discovery but it’s too early to be sure

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Europe should worry less and learn to love AI

New legislation risks driving development of the transformative technology away from the bloc

14.12.2023 10

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Digital advertising is still far too murky

Platforms must open up and let marketers see where their ads are being placed

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