John Thornhill

Thursday, 1 June, 2023

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

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

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

Thursday, 4 May, 2023

Technology

How technology reinvented chess as a global social network

The sport has become more accessible in the internet age

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday, 3 March, 2023

FT News Briefing podcast2 min listen

Introducing Tech Tonic Season 6: The Quantum Revolution

In this new season, Madhumita Murgia and John Thornhill talks about quantum computing

Thursday, 2 March, 2023

Technology sector

Israel risks turning into a shut-down nation

Political unrest is causing the country’s extraordinarily successful tech sector to look elsewhere

Thursday, 23 February, 2023

Artificial intelligence

AI can help us build imagination machines

Robot learning models can tackle three barriers to human creativity: boredom, shame and vision

Thursday, 16 February, 2023

Artificial intelligence

AI warfare can empower the bad guys as well as the good

There are serious questions about how far national security capabilities should be outsourced to private companies

Thursday, 9 February, 2023

UK business & economy

Britain’s entrepreneurs need more than support by stealth

The UK’s dizzying churn of industrial policy changes has left start-ups vulnerable to lures from elsewhere

Thursday, 26 January, 2023

Artificial intelligence

Can generative AI’s stimulating powers extend to productivity?

Thursday, 19 January, 2023

Artificial intelligence

Google Translate for the zoo? How humans might talk to animals

A sonic revolution triggered by advances in hardware and software lets us eavesdrop on planetary conversations

Thursday, 19 January, 2023

FT Magazine

300 nuclear missiles are heading your way. You must respond. What now?

Inside Moran Cerf’s quest to modernise the decision-making process that could end life on earth

Thursday, 12 January, 2023

Technology sector

Quantum computing is harder than herding kittens

Whether the industry will rewrite the future of cryptography and computation is still up for fierce debate

Thursday, 5 January, 2023

Big tech

In (partial) defence of Silicon Valley

For all their faults, tech innovators may at last be making an impact on productivity — and on wider society

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